She danced because she needed to. She needed to say things which could be said in no other way, and she needed to take her meaning and her living from the saying of them.

Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

Anger is always - always - fear in disguise.

We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.

Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.

It's always coldest before the warm.

A beautiful poem is nothing but a mirror of philosophy through which we can see life’s pure beauty.

The water was still. The mountains moved.

We may have a tiny little room that we rent, and if we keep it clean and it's impeccable, then we gain a power from that.

I have a dog that loves to fight. It's a border collie, and they fight low to the ground. Other dogs are terrified of my dog, because he gets low and goes for the balls.

In repose, my face looks as though I had gone through a terrible deal in the last five minutes. I have to disguise the expression and get a glassy-eyed look. That's something I learned from my dog.

I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.

The only book I ever read cover to cover was The Pete Rose Story. I read half of The Lou Gehrig Story and then made a book report on it for four straight years.

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

I'm pretty much an open book. I am a fanatic golfer and golf nut. If I have three free hours any day, my first choice is to run to the golf course if the weather is nice.

We don't break our captains. We kill them.