Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.

Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.

It wasn’t every day that I got to see him, but when I did I knew I was on the right path and that life, while still shifting, was always improving for the better.

Once you tell somebody a story, you are all in the same world and you can all speak to each other about the same things and understand the same things.

The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.

Oh, come on, ladies. God wouldn't have given you maracas if he didn't want you to shake 'em.

we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.

The Beatles are, first and foremost, my favorite band of all time.

I don't really know that much about love, it turns out.

We have always made mistakes, but the greatest mistakes are the poems we have written.

Before I write I let my mind go blind and let the lord do his thing.