We're all controlled neurotics.

The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.

So if a Christian is touched only once a year, the touching is still worth it, and maybe on some given Christmas, some quiet morning, the touch will take.

Now he could say for sure that he'd never known a feeling stronger than that of being at one with another person - that rare feeling of not being alone anymore.

The best companies are able to realize earnings in cash, not through calculations that belong in fantasyland.

Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child's mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments, anger and a general loss of harmony.

But there's the beauty of life beyond the bubble. It's possible for someone to see your wicked bits and still love you.

All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]

I tell ya I got a stupid son. That's one load that shoulda been shot on the wall.

Q: When you are already in the lead, how do you to stay ahead?

For what good is freedom of expression if you lack the means to express yourself?

I think I look good. I think I look real good.

When you're a kid and you're in a classroom, anybody would die to be hanging out in London or having their sixteenth birthday in Japan.