If we really feel like we're comfortable in our own skins now, we have a longer period of time to live out that kind of third or fourth act of our life.

I really feel like I'm a liberal because I'm a Catholic, because I took the words of the New Testament to heart.

Young men kill someone for a handful of coins, then are remorseless, even casual: Hey, man, things happen. And their parents nab the culprit: it was the city, the cops, the system, the crowd, the music. Anyone but him. Anyone but me.

Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.

A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life.

There's no greater happiness than doing something every day that you love, that you feel you do in a satisfactory fashion, and which both supports and gives you time to support your family. I felt so lucky to have all that.

I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it if it is done in private by consenting adults.