Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds - a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.

To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.

Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.