Never worry about missing a field goal. Just blame the holder and think about making the next one.

So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch.

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter

Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had come halfway round the world to convey.

For the first time the people of Iraq are united. Today on CNN I saw a Kurd, a Shiite and a member of the Republican Guard coming together to cart off a big screen TV.

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

I always assume I look better than I actually do. I'll feel pretty good about myself when I leave the house, then I'll see a picture and think, 'Crap, I had no idea that's what I was looking like.'

When in trouble, take a bath and wash your hair.