One advantage of bad bidding is that you get practice at playing atrocious contracts.

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.

The real test of a bridge player isn’t in keeping out of trouble, but in escaping once he’s in.

It's not enough to win the tricks that belong to you. Try also for some that belong to the opponents.

Since the average person's small supply of politeness must last him all his life, he can't afford to waste it on bridge partners.

That bowl was special because of the blue. It exactly matched your eyes.

To me, part of the beauty of a comma is that it offers a rest, like one in music: a break that gives the whole piece of music greater shape, deeper harmony. It allows us to catch our breath.

I have no advice for anyone on how to live.

The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.

My life is being ruined by the internet!

The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms.

African-American voters are not nearly as enthusiastic about [Hillary] Clinton as they were about [Barack] Obama.

Marriage is what marriage is... It’s like going out and saying, ‘That tree is a car.’ Well, the tree’s not a car. A tree’s a tree. Marriage is marriage.

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an error.