"I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita. How I have existed fills me with horror for I failed in everything. Spelling, arithmetic, writing, swimming, tennis, golf, dancing, singing, acting, wife, mistress, whore, friend, even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of not trying. I tried with all my heart."

"Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be bec…"

"Though the terrain of frustration may be vast — from a stubbed toe to an untimely death — at the heart of e…"

"It would have been better if we had fought in Italy and Austria which are really at war against us, instead…"

"It has often been asserted that the polytheistic Hindu failed to establish a spiritual kinship with the mon…"

"Passion doesn't count the cost. ... Passion is destructive."

"Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is plea…"