life

"I’m willing to die for the woman I love. I just want to take 75 years to do it."

"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."

"I wish I could travel west nonstop chasing sunsets. And as the time zones move backwards, I could live forever if I just kept moving."

"Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?"

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."

"Seventy percent of success in life is showing up."

"Man has two legs and chairs have four, because we were made to stand out, not sit down—or be sat on. You are your brand—you are not a piece of furniture. Well, this applies to everyone except my grandma, but she’s dead, so she really doesn’t mind being used as a coat rack."

"I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road."

"I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things."

"Stairs, are they going up or are they going down? They’re so confusing! If love were a physical thing, it would be stairs."

"It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing."

"The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be. And that sucks. But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up."

"For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life."

"My identity was a big issue when I was a teenager, and I had a lot of questions, like: 'Who am I?' 'Who do I belong to?' But when I was still quite young, I decided that belonging is a tough process in life, and I'd better say I belonged to myself and the world rather than belonging to one nationality or another."

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

"It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back."

"The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life."

"To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]"

"Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not."

"I’ve only been in love one time, I said as I held up my pinky finger. I could have held up my index finger, but I wasn’t in love that long."