The day of judgment is either approaching or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for adjournment. If it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.

The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.

I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.

Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.

A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.

Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power.

It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.

Art... can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations.

Life is a short walk. There is so little time and so much living to achieve.

I don't want to be separate from something that's important to me.

I'll go anywhere to talk about the Constitution. I believe in trans-partisan organizing around these issues.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

I love flinging everything I buy behind me onto the back-seat of the car: it's always full of packages when I travel, when I leap in my car!

Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.