I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.

Los Angeles County government is a "Soviet-style system," with too many people only sort of in charge and no person sufficiently at the helm to take responsibility.

This is not a contest with your child. The winner is not the one with more points. The winner is the one whose child still loves them when they graduate from high school.

Don't think about that. Just believe I'll be okay.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

I’m all mixed up inside. It’s like—I don’t know—like an ignition of some kind. one minute, I’m fine, and the next I’m losing it.

Take on jobs, projects and challenges that frighten you. It's the best way to get rid of fear.

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.

A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.

No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.

Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!

Any conscious, wilful impairment of the body is an affront to God.