I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.

I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.

Self-pity is the simplest luxury.