No one remembers who came in second.

Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.

There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.

My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?

No one remembers who came in second.

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.

It pleased the public to think I lived the easy, carefree life - the playboy of golf.

Poets take themselves very seriously.

If I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together.

When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German and Italian, I have a history with the Romans and the Saxons. I feel some connection and ancestry here, as weird as that sounds.

The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.

I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.

We have a beautiful little boy who is 18 months old and another little boy to be born in October. We are very excited about that.

I love the sound of the saxophone. It became my singing voice, and it sounds so human. The saxophone could carry the words past the border of words. It can carry it a little bit farther.

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.

My roots are on the live performing stage, so while I enjoy making films and the other things that I do, when I get on stage, I feel at home; I'm comfortable.

I've never been on a cruise.

I like the idea of separation of services. ISPs provide a pipe. Other vendors provide security. Other vendors provide email. When one party controls all the services, it's a 'synergy' for the company, but rarely for the consumer.

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

I was born into an Irish Catholic family in the New York area in this great, wonderful, and safe country, but the Holocaust has always haunted me, and it has long stood as a stumbling block to faith. How could such a thing be? How is that consistent with the concept of a loving God?

I am a strong, independent person.

Running well is a matter of having the patience to persevere when we are tired and not expecting instant results.

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones.

A cat in gloves catches no mice.

My mission in life is to try and get to a point where my insides world is not affected by the outside world.

I do a lot of eavesdropping. That's one of the things I miss about New York: just checking people out.

If you want to open a supermarket chain and put your face all around the globe, selling your baby and your dog, if it makes you happy, who am I to disagree, as the song goes. But it's not for me. I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy.

There's a certain kind of research you have to listen to - the factual stuff, not opinion. Facts are facts. Sugar is sweet - it's not a matter of opinion. It just is.

Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.

I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.