Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.
When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph.
By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system.
There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the line, and risk everything for their beliefs.
I only listen to my own music when I'm playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don't put it on recreationally.
No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.
My earliest realization of the stir of national life was the torch parade in the Garfield campaign. On that occasion, I was not only allowed out that night, but I saw the lamps being filled and lighted.
Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
Most of my early work was done on typewriter. And the only way to iterate drafts was to re-type it.
Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
Only the elites despise earning money.
I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.
I only believe in what I see and hear with my own eyes and ears.
