The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

And I'm a stodgy old scientist who believes, naively, that there exists an external world, that there exist objective truths about that world, and that my job is to discover some of them.

I receive a lot of letters on tour, and read about a lot of people hurting.

That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be.

My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.

I feel like I'm in the best shape of my life at 45 ... I didn't know this exercise thing felt so good.

Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.

It's the sheer joy of seeing things grow and helping them to grow, even harvesting the stuff that you've grown yourself, no matter how old you are.

Give me a thrill, says the reader, Give me a kick; I don't care how you succeed, or What subject you pick.