The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down?

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.

I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!

The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.

...I would be the last person to say that madness is not a solution.

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

If grace is to be free - which is the very meaning of grace - we cannot view it as something to be repaid.

Trump's tax returns - his tax returns showed he went through a very difficult time, but he used the tax code just the way it's supposed to be used. And he did it brilliantly.

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again.

I'm really encouraged by Pope Francis, because I think his attitude is totally laudable.

I can do whatever it takes to win.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.