To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.

I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a terrible towel.

In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.

You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.

As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.

You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare.

Now me, ” said Mr. Vandemar.“What number am I thinking of?” “I beg your pardon?” “What number am I thinking of?” repeated Mr. Vandemar. “It’s between one and a lot, ” he added, helpfully.

You'll understand me when you're older. Then you'll see how men can blind you. And I mean blind you. To the point that you're no longer yourself.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.

If Bill Gates woke up with Oprah's money he'd jump out the window.

Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear.

I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.

I did some thinking.” “That is a very dangerous pastime,” Ghastek said.

Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.

Intellectually, I know I am worthy, however arbitrary a thing worthiness is, and have always been worthy.