The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.

Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.

We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.

We all have hometown appetites.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.

Chowder breathes reassurace. It steams consolation.

Never grow a wishbone daughter where your backbone ought to be.

She wanted to reach up to the night and dig her fingers into it, beg it to stay just a little bit longer.

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.

What you need is a fundamental humility - the belief that you can learn from anyone.

The world should forget about cheap oil. The price will keep going up and some day arrive at US$100 per barrel.

I'm too busy looking for the next role to do. I think about how to continue, to survive in the same vein. I like my career and my life as it is.

I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.

Life can show up no other way than that way in which you perceive it.

Okay. Look, why don't you take care of the half a million things you've been letting dangle in Roarke's Empire of Everything?" "Catchy title. I may use it one day.