"March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely... There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters."

"It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top."

"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason."

"The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs."

"Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce."

"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

"The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it."

"He who inspires courage in a single soul has led a monumental campaign. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."