"This is how the world changes - little by little, table by table, meal by meal, hour by hour. This is how we chip away at isolation, loneliness, fear. This is how we connect, in big and small ways - we do it around the table."

“I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge.”

“Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making.”

“I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen. Then I work on a word processor using a different desk and a different room.”

“I'm a really firm believer that anyone can get pretty good at anything if you just do it all the time and you just keep working at it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Each year I become more mindful of being thankful for each life experience.”

“That would have been a nice place, inside an idea, but it wasn't a place to live. It was necessary to live where the idea and the fact collided.”

Source : 1985 The BigMan, ch.8.

“And I loved seeing that because they're great interesting cities in of themselves so I'm looking forward to actually being able to use it as itself instead of being a bad New York.”

“When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, / I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.”