Every day you're alive and someone loves you is a miracle.

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.

Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.

I always feel bad for those who, in a sense, cede their authority to others, let others make major decisions about their life and actually believe them. When you're tiny, you have no choice. But as soon as your mind starts working, you pretty well figure it out. And you realize you're a hostage until you're old enough to leave. But as long as you have that goal - I will get out of here - you'll be OK.

Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.

American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.