These are open secrets, so to speak. Of the kind we dare not articulate, for fear of wounding those close to us.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

The past might hurt but don't run from it, repeat it, or punish others for it. Learn from it and be glad that you survived it.

the ocean mist engulfs me, like a lifetime’s friendship honored.

He wouldn't give a duck a drink if he owned Lake Michigan.

I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.

We are part of the earth and it is part of us ... What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it

Nobody's safe, humor wise.

Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.

Every aspect of Obamacare is an affront to the very founding of this country.