It's not that I'm a Type-B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy.

To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question.

It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past.

If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.

The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for.

Even at times when I don't care, I know exactly what I would care about if I did.

Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny.