Sports gives us the grandest opportunity of all to talk about reaching down and helping up or getting on somebody else's shoulders.

I paid more for the Dallas Cowboys than anyone prior than that had ever paid to get involved in sports. But I wanted to be a part of the future of the Dallas Cowboys.

The only way to break out is to gamble - take a chance with that first pick if you wanna dramatically improve your team.

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

Many people have stopped growing. When you stop growing, you stop living. Many have stopped living and now just bide their time before it becomes official.

Do you still want me to go to hell? I must admit, I don't know the way.

Love does not fail for you when you are rejected, betrayed or apparently not Loved. Love fails for you when you reject, betray and do not love. Therefore .. Love.

The people who do better and better work are people who are never satisfied. Cezanne would say, 'I think I've accomplished something,' but then he would immediately add, 'But it's not enough.

I was a total bad girl growing up.

I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.

Ability is active power, or power to perform.

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.