The more degrees of freedom there are in practice, the wider the discussion and debate can be.

But I realize now that the toughest choices, the ones that will haunt us for the rest of our lives, are ones that my mom is still sheltering me from.

Often she felt as though she had been picked up and turned about like a kaleidoscope, that all her complacent assumptions had been shaken up and reassembled in a different order

Some girls had their heads in the clouds. My head was somewhere on the other side of the galaxy.

Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation, to honor both the rational and the irrational elements of poetry.

Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not it were better that nothing should be.

People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different than saying that history is subjective.

I think people like players they can relate to. It seems as if people think they know me. I just think I'm an ordinary Joe who plays golf very, very well.

Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.

I know I'm not a saint, but I'm not the guy I'm made out to be by others.

Be brave with your life, so others will be brave with theirs.