It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly foolishly.

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs.

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.

One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be heaped upon him by fellow Christians quick to smell out, denounce and punish fraud, hypocrisy and general unworthiness among those who assert the faith. In ruder days, disputes about what constituted a fully qualified Christian often led to sordid quarrels in which the disputants tortured, burned and hanged each other in the conviction that torture, burning and hanging were Christian things to do.