To be insular is to be independent. But it is also to be alone.

The people had once created the city. The city now created the people, or, more exactly, the people of Venice now identified themselves more in terms of the city. The private had become public.

Insecurity of the spirit demands completeness elsewhere.

I'm only sort of a politician.

In golf, a player can step and mar the line of his adversary's putt. A player can also hit his adversary or his caddie intentionally with his ball and claim the hole - but it isn't usually done.

Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.

I have a great relationship with the blacks. I've always had a great relationship with the blacks.

Sometimes it's harder to play good tennis with a bad tennis player - the same way it's hard to be a good actor with a bad actor. It's just an unpleasant experience.

Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.

Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.

But make no mistake: the weeds will win: nature bats last.

Something just happens when you read a part. You know, if you'd like to do it or if you don't believe it.

We all hit bumps. But we're not defined by the bumps, we're defined by how we respond to those bumps.