When your wife asks you for your opinion, she doesn't really want your opinion. She wants her opinion - just in a deeper voice.

When the media enjoy such excessive profits from this mass hysteria, what incentive do they have to restrain it?

I'm used to desperate, buddy. Desperate's my factory default. But thanks anyway.

Earthly authorities respect only visible and tangible forces

There are moments in life when all that we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us our wounds would wince at consoling words that would reveal the depths of our pain.

Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others.

It felt good to get out there, move a little and break a couple of tackles and get back to myself to get ready for Week 1.

I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.

It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral.

Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!