I know a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty than they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

He gave me a book and said he was going to give me a quiz on the first 24 pages,

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.