Many Quotes

Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.

By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.

I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.

There are many, many books I’ve read and I think this is quite naïve actually because we all just try to uncover something.

You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha.

It’s wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn’t used to like.

We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.

So, even though people don’t have a lot here, they are a lot richer in many ways and we can learn from that.

I’ve spent so many years waiting for publishers to consider whether they wanted to print a book of mine, making contracts, taking months to fit it into the Fall list or the Spring list, fitting it into an advertising plan.

Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.