This is what happens, when things are not quite a fairy tale.You go into the woods to find your story. If you are brave, if you are fortunate, you walk out of them to find your life.

Perhaps the only happily ever after is to survive to tell the story

This is the thing about fairy tales: You have to live through them, before you get to happily ever after. That ever after has to be earned, and not everyone makes it that far.

You got infinite channels and limitless rhymes, but the riddles of livin' stay undefined?

The world can ask you to participate, but it's a day-today decision if you want to agree to that proposal.

..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable.

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

Men who have a thirty-six-tele vised-football- games-a- week-habit should be declared legally dead and their estates probated.

I used to love going into local hardware stores, to look at little things they made locally. Nowadays it's harder, though you can still do it in Vietnam.

Those who understand evil pardon it.

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

Any sportswriter who thinks the world is no bigger than the outfield fence in not only a bad citizen, but also a lousy sportswriter.

What's interesting about the Taliban, is they're more afraid of educating girls than they are of drones. One educated girl is more scary to the Taliban than a drone.