Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.

I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.

Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry.

Some things don’t mix. Some things don’t mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk.

But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.

I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.

It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.