The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster.

Golf's ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoyment: relax into a rhythm that fits the hills and swales, and play the shot at hand - not the last one, or the next one, but the one at your feet, in the poison ivy, where you put it.

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

We?re here tonight thinking about Cindy Sheehan and how she needs support. Perhaps the president can come out at some point and explain to her how come her son died.