A professional football team warms up grimly and disparately, like an army on maneuvers: the ground troops here, the tanks there, the artillery and air force over there.

Basketball teams, after the perfunctory lay-up drill, fall into the crowded isolation and personal style of 10 city kids shooting at the same basket or playing one-on-one.

Aggression, the writer's main source of energy.

The best is good enough for me.

I Live in Poverty and That's My Inspiration

Just one moment of madnessCan rescind a lifetime of moments.Lord Heikan

It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home.

The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.

A Socrates in every classroom.

Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.

The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.

It seems to me that the most delightful walk of life is to be found in a household of moderate means, to live there with an obliging spouse and to be satisfied with little.

The spiritual world needs two revolutions: One is to separate God from religion and the other is to separate religion from God! This purification process will make God less human and more universal.

I don't really watch too many remakes. I saw Scorsese's version of Cape Fear, which was good. That was a good remake.