There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black.

I think transitions are never that noticeable, but they are always on their way. It has to do with distance and accessibility. People call it mellowing, but I think it's how available you are toward other people, or how much you distance yourself.

A feud should live a full and colorful life, and then it should die a natural death and be forgotten.

On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?

I have vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals.

I have taken roads that I wished I had not traveled on. And I'm traveling on some pretty exciting ones, too. Just hope when you get to that great racetrack in the sky, that the balance will tip slightly into those things that you'd be proud of.

The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19.