The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough lavish, impudent ones to feed them.

Words, do not have twins in every language. Sometimes they only have distant cousins, and sometimes they pretend that they are not even related.

I was certain t find the familiar sting of salt, but what I needed to know was what kind: kitchen, sweat, tears or the sea.

Alcohol, I had learned, was an eloquent if somewhat inaccurate interpreter. I had placed my trust that December night in glass after glass of it, eager not for drink but for a bit of talk.

Some Christians say god is the source of morality, these people have clearly never read the bible.

Our common future is badly served when the eloquence of our attack on the other fellow exceeds the energy with which we cooperate with them.

It's all about portion control. Grilled fish, a small amount of wild rice and vegetables is a good meal.

We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you.

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.

In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.

As terrifying as sharks are, I find it far more terrifying, the idea of being trapped on the bottom of the ocean with a ticking clock and running out of air.

There was a time, in the nineteenth century, for example, when women spoke mostly about the house, children, birth, and so forth, because it was their domain. That's changing a little, now.

It's okay not to know everything; that would have calmed me down.

The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be.