Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.
I cannot even picture myself retiring. What would I do? I'll always be doing something, asking somebody questions, even if there weren't a book.
Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.
How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.
Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better. Interweave all these communities and you really have an America that is back on its feet again. I really think we are gonna have to reassess what constitutes a 'hero'.
We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.
Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
Could you bring back a man without a head? Not six times. Just once.
I'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted.
It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.
I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable.