It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively..

No one actually lives as if there is no objective truth..

What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe.’.

I always do things before I go on a case and when I leave a case. I even do that when I'm out on the road..

I don't like closed systems..

I don't pull, I just receive..

Now I see -- we are always most revolted by the things hidden within us..

Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good..

Success is less rare than the courage to attempt it..

I love being Italian..

Always say less than necessary..

We see not our own backs..

You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented..

Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar..

Studying the behavior of large whales has been likened to astronomy. The observer glimpses his subjects, often at long range; he cannot do experiment….

In every sport there comes a moment when a spell of bitter weeping seems like a fair recess from whatever tough work is going on. It's only the steel….

When did you trust someone to hold a truth as carefully as you did?.

The nature of faith is that it must be tried..

It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience..

The bravest are the tenderest..

Things are what they are, and whatever will be, will be..