I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.

If manners maketh the man as someone said, then he's the hero of the day.

I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.

When there's no information and the compass turns to nowhere that you know well, let your soul be your pilot.

For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur.

I went off to fight some battle that I'd invented inside me.