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

Adjectives are the curse of America.

I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.

Humor comes from self-confidence.

The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.

Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.

Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.