We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.

Dance with me, Death, I am ready.

And I understood that I ought not ask for a prayer language until I could ask without making it the test of my entire faith.

I know my kids will be incredible, just not as great as me.

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

Most importantly fighters in my day knew the most important art in boxing - feinting.

William Shawn was the editor of The New Yorker and for whom I worked for, God, 27 years; a man I respected enormously because of what he did, - what the magazine was about.

Do not, as you value the health and happiness of those who sit at your table, place before them hot leavened bread or biscuit.

He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from New York who became a Buddhist, a poet, a musician.

I cannot abide the Mr. and Mrs. Noah attitude towards marriage; the animals went in two by two, forever stuck together with glue.