Something's still wrong--the same thing that was wrong forty years ago. A malignancy, a tumor, slowly growing in someone's heart. A conscience that's seared.

Judgment doesn’t always fall on the unjust in this life. Sometimes you have to make your own way out.

When he leaned in to kiss me, the future swirled before me, bright as sunlight on creek water.

I drink cup of sunlight every morning to brighten myself.

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and failures...I divide the world into the learners and non-learners.

Women now wield considerable power along political lines and I believe each succeeding year for some time to come will find them wielding that power more effectively.

In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off.

Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.

Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.

The pageant has passed. That day is over. But we linger, loath to think we shall see them no more together - these men, these horses, these colors afield.

I do what I have to do," I say. I do what I have to do to save him. I do what I have to do to save Todd.

Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic.

The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.