I felt the water rising enough to touch my Vans. She was worth ruing a pair of shoes over.

If you have to use the words, “deep down” all that means is you're fooling yourself. You're seeing what you want to see and not what's really there.

Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.

Women have this obsession with shoes.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

To equip a pedestrian with shelter, bedding, utensils, food, and other necessities, in a pack so light and small that he can carry it without overstrain, is really a fine art.

There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright]

I don’t want to slam somebody else’s religion. I mean as a Catholic, we’re basically cannibals: We eat Jesus every Sunday, you know? So who am I to say your religion is creepy?

the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.

Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.

The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army.