That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.

There is such solace in the mere sight of water. It clothes us delicately in its blowing salt and scent, gossamer items that medicate the poor soul

Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.

After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it.

The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is what brings us so full of longing to the sea.

I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood.

It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you can.

It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.

A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something, his face of course, but also the inner matters, like a hedge around a secret garden, or a cover over a bird cage.

And whatever my life had been up to that day, it was another life after that. And that is the gospel truth.

For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity.

You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.

Wrapped around my son with only the knowledge of the words of the world & a quiet remembrance of watching before this all began.

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

The human face does not always reflect the beauty that may repose in the soul.

Lacrosse is probably the best sport I ever played.

The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.

Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies.

I don't want to make music for people who don't care about music.