I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It became a neighborhood thing for a while, our neighborhood against the other neighborhood. There was always a war breaking out somewhere.

It's not nice going into the supermarket and the woman at the till is thinking: 'Dodgy keeper'.

I once got a letter from a woman who told me she was 90. She said if she were 30 years younger, I would have had to watch out. I guess 60 seems really young when you're 90. She said she would eat me with a spoon.

A fly rod extends a fly fisher's being as surely as do imagination, empathy or prayer.

The stars above Italian clubs' badges shows you how many times they have won the Gazetta.

To every Armageddonist, every earth lover must keep saying with all the sincerity and affection we can muster, “May God make this world as beautiful to you as it has been to me.

I felt a rush of trust--felt that life might be not just tolerable but beautiful, if I could only remember to find the bare Present.