We always say, one day we will laugh at this. I always try to make sure that this one day is today…
Whenever we see an unprotected piece we must keep our eyes peeled because this is one of the most important ingredients of a combination.
Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.
I want to be with one person in my life. I want to know that the guy I spend the rest of my life with is the first person I share something so intimate and exciting with.
When I graduated from high school, I hoped that one day gay Americans would be able to get married. And now here I am 45 years later officiating same-sex marriages—how can I not be optimistic that the future is bright?
Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next…
It was nothing that I think any one of us took on because it was a gig that was available. It was something that felt like a true passion and something that every single person brought much more than any of us could have expected. … I do honestly feel honored to be part of this group.
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. I like to read Archie Ammons, my great friend. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
