You'd better know what you want, because you'll probably get it.

Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.

Fine worries, like fine wines, are at their best only after they have been properly mellowed.

I carry around such a load of non-specific guilt that every time the metal detector beeps, I always have a wild fear that this trip I absent-mindedly packed a Luger.

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

It's important for the writers of the presidential daily brief to feel comfortable that the documents will never be politicized and/or unnecessarily exposed for public purview.

Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.

I feel the most vulnerable when I'm in love. When my heart is open, and when life is making me feel like I have to open up myself completely. Love has a tendency to do that.

Indeed, we learn far more from our mistakes than our successes.

The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.

If you really love music, people can tell if you love music. You have to just stick with it.

I was, am and always will be a student…, the day I stop learning, is the day I die.

For some reason the football coach of a major college program is seen as one of the leaders of the campus. And some way we have to let our young people know that that leader can look like anyone.