You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.

You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.

Respect all. Fear none.

Nothing. And, I don't start before noon.

Because she is too ugly to kiss goodbye.

When it's first and a mile, I won't give it to him.

Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.

Yep. And I noticed how slowly he went down each time, too.

There's two kinds of coaches, them that's fired and them that's gonna be fired.

Yeah, that test says he's dumb as a fence post, but when he hits he looks like Einstein to me.

Is there a particular way of looking at your love?” she asked.…..Yes… The way you look at me.

Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

Just this once, ’ he says almost more to himself than to me. ‘Just one moment.’ Then he leans down and kisses me.

The more people know, the more they forgive.

Dogs are high on life. Cats need catnip.

But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.

No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.

In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers.

I've never thought of myself as a religious person.

Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness.