Your mind is your spirit

Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.

As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it.

Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.

For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done.

I imagine the proverb about too many cooks spoiling the broth can be applied to writing as well as anything else. The poetical or literary broth is better cooked by one person.

I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious.

No one sees life like you do, because you are no one. You change constantly, like the light outside the window.

Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary.

I have an apartment back home in London. England will be home for me. It always has been and always will be. It's where my friends are.

The only life I want is one with you.