If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

I know how to choke. Given even a splinter-thin opportunity to let my side down and destroy my own score, I will seize it. Not only does ice water not run through my veins, but what runs there has a boiling point lower than body temperature.

Of nothing but me I sing, lacking another song.

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

As souls must cry when they awaken in tiny babies and find themselves far from heaven

What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?

I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit of those medieval carvers who so fondly sculpted the undersides of choir seats.