We're angry about this, upset about that, but who has the time to do anything anymore? There are those reports to report on, memos to remember, e-mails to deflect or delete. They bury us like snow.

I was raised to be ashamed of my ignorance, and to try to do something about it if at all possible.

I suspect that on some level, life is a matter of indefensible loyalties.

Generally speaking, writers who have been at it for a while, and who are any good at it, suffer from an acute kind of self-knowledge. The unexamined life is not a risk for them.

Imagination is by definition, a complex system.

The rival ideologies of the left and right are both pining for the 50s. The only difference is that liberals want to work there, while conservatives want to go home there.

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.

I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special effects.

I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.

She was the kind of gal that if she set her sights on a man, he'd be running in the opposite direction real quick.

Whatever you do, make a difference. Earn the right to look back at something and say, 'I did that.'

I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.

I think everyone thinks their family is insane, and every family is insane. There is no real normal.