If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.

The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe.

My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.

My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.

If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.

The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she'd misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably great in bed, certainly believed in God and goodness, and kept an illicit collection of overdue library books on her shelves.

In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.