To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

It's easy to be generous with money. Far harder to be generous with your time.

Divine-encounter exist any sacred-situation.

Only one-tenth of what you write will make it into your manuscript, but when you knock on that tenth” – I rap my knuckles on the table – “you’ll hear oaken solidity, not sawdust and glue.

Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.

I think George Mitchell believed in promoting women.

I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through.

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

I'd rather be happy than right.

I want to be a manager for new artists, get real estate.

For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle.

Oh, good gigantic smile o' the brown old earth, This autumn morning! How he sets his bones To bask i' the sun, and thrusts out knees and feet. From the ripple to run over in its mirth