What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.

Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.

Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.

I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.

There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids who live by surfing the Web.

I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.

The best defense is a good story.

Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

I always had good students.

I lost a horse today.''That sounds careless. What happened?''She jumped off a cliff.''A cliff! Is that normal?

President Trump is doing a great job of demonstrating that politicians routinely lie to their electorate.

Life is a cat asleep on the window sill suddenly waking as it falls from the third floor.

I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.

Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.

Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.

I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move.

If you ask most high schoolers who Bruce Lee is, they will say that it someone they sit next to in English class.

Never indulge in people who follow a negative path because they will take you with them on the road of ruin. Show them the way to positivism even if there's a risk of losing their friendship.

It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.