"Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty."

“I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.”

“Be funny on a golf course? Do I kid my best friend's mother about her heart condition?”

Source : Quoted in Michael Hobbs The Golf Quotation Book (1992).

“I'm into classic games like Donkey Kong, and also collect vintage tour t-shirts - everything from Olivia Newton-John to Duran Duran. I've got a Chicago one worth $100.”

“It's precisely because we're people that we have the power to change our own fate. So let's all change together.”

“And the council doesn’t recognize any kind of temporary insanity defense. Which was a real shame, because most of the councilmen had considered me crazy for most of my life.”

“I've always had a tomboy quality to me that I embrace and don't run away from. At the same time I'm a real girlie-girl.”

“Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.”

“I will garden on the double run, my rhythm obvious in the ringing rakes, and trust in fate to keep me poor and kind and work until my heart is short, then go out slowly with a feeble grin, my fingers flexing but my eyes gone gray from cramps and the lack of oxygen.”

Source : Richard Hugo, Ripley S. Hugo (1992). “The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet's Autobiography”, p.169, W. W. Norton & Company