I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.
God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!
Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
Caricature is rough truth.
I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist. I very much like arcane words and baroque sentence structure.
If we are going to try to get across to the poorest people in the world that we care about their plight and we want them to join one world with the rest of us, we have got to make promises and keep promises.
If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?
If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation.