There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing easy to make it go far. Finish high to make it go straight.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

I was disoriented by the idea that men should ever leave the forest.

Damn. It looks to me like I just missed the best reunion since Sherman got together with Atlanta.

Sometimes I wake up with such an immense sense of disappointment that I can hardly breathe.

And there's the Victoria Memorial, built as a memorial to Victoria.

My wife, as proud as she was of me, hated show business for good reasons. There was something about the spouse always being pushed out of the way, shoved aside. She wanted to get away from it.

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

The only thing money is good for is to buy your freedom.

It's a big issue for me - feeling like I should be helping every person who asks for something or who has a problem.

Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted.

The chances of you winning are the same as the chances of HELL freezing over.