The silence leans forward.

Missing someone, they say, is self-centered.I self-center you more than ever.

...there's not enough of anything to go around except people and death.

...someone ought to invent a tool, a kind of plane to shave the lies away from stories and deception away from memories. I'm a collector of shavings.

I'm an idealist: I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?

Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers.

I've got a clear line between work and real life.

More men will continue to attain enlightenment than women, unless women change their use of the second attention.

The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.

And that's an even greater love: to love somebody when he's a little...worn at the edges. —Teddy Bear

When a man does not admit that he is an animal, he is less than an animal. Not more but less.

Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.

You have to teach now - tell a kid how to box out, tell him how to pass, teach him footwork. Players don't understand that anymore.