Mismatches destroy us all, even the most tender ones, and most never have the courage to break someone else's heart to follow their own.

A joy that's shared is a joy made double.

Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.

Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.

No matter what happens, you always need someone else to look after you at the end.

To know whom to strike is competence; to know how to strike is skill; to know where and when to strike is art; to know why to strike is victory.

Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.

If I were the president, I would be very concerned... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.

They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

I think 'SNL' was such a unique thing because it was material you created and you're very comfortable with it, even though the setting was pressure-packed.