People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there's a satisfaction to the game that can't be duplicated. There's a harmony.

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.

There are no amateurs in the world of children.

Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.

Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape and inflence human consciousness are the terrorists.

The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.