A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.

Its the fate of all creators: They fall in love with their creations.

Draco Malfoy is a bad boy!" squeaked Dobby angrily.

Isolation is the dream killer.

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided republic.

Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.

It was really an exciting time trying to find my way from being a boy to becoming a man—being toe to toe and eye to eye with grown men, even though I was only 11 or 12.

I think everyone has their own secret Dawn Wall to complete one day, and maybe they can put this project in their own context.

How about slipping out of those wet things and into a dry Martini?

The unique thing about my life is the extent to which it took me on a path-business-I had no desire to walk.

Transformations always occur during moments of crisis.