Take the goods the gods provide, and don't stand and sulk when they are snatched away.

that darkest of syllables, death.

it requires a great deal more generosity to take than to give.

People tend to believe accusations more than denials.

I've gotten to the place where I find life too short for if-only.

Sanity is sometimes a matter of going on, outwardly, as if everything is all right.

Love is recognition, perhaps the highest form of it. You.

It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes-Miles "Pudge

One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.

Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.

Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.

For ages, in my lunch hours, I would just go round and choreograph fight scenes. For fun. So now I'm very good at being thrown around. I bounce, in the words of my friends.

Sometimes I wish I could go back in life, not to change things but just to feel things twice

The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues - self-restraint.

There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.

Can you ever “solve” poverty? Can you ever “solve” crime? Can you ever “solve” disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no.

My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.