Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.

The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.

So if a Christian is touched only once a year, the touching is still worth it, and maybe on some given Christmas, some quiet morning, the touch will take.

We're all controlled neurotics.

From now on, every Christmas, let's have a tradition where we eat soup out of a can by the fire.

Yesterday, I got lost.You did too.So what?People get lost all the time.It's just a matter of finding yourself, and treasuring that.

We are the estranged orphans of our nations and tribes, and we now bear the weight not of survival of the group but of personal identity.

There comes a time. The pain of existence transcends the fear of change. There comes a time.

They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign.

Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing.

Most people don't want to leave their wife and children behind but many people seem to want to take leave of themselves.

You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.

There aren't as many roles for people who look like me, and it was always complicated when it came to casting my parents. But now I couldn't be more grateful that I have a different look.

Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.