Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

When you are absolutely, positively sure you know all there is to know about anything, you're as far from the truth as you will ever be.

Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.

What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did.

My former wife made me a millionaire. I used to have three million dollars.

I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'

I wouldn't urinate in his ear if his brain was on fire!

I was a multi-millionaire from playing hockey. Then I got divorced, and now I'm a millionaire.

Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids

Then to have Brett come along and follow in the footsteps, it's so gratifying. I get as much enjoyment out of watching Brett play as I did of entertaining people myself.

My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.

...a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit.

That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

If it requires a uniform, it's a worthless endeavor.

If I get ideas independently of the act of writing, they never really fit. So for me, there's no hanging out, waiting for inspiration.

I'm pretty much of the Shakespearean school. Dialogue is character. How we speak is who we are.

It's vital to have your own space so you aren't constantly in each other's pockets.

Inspiration can come from anywhere - an image, a comment, something that's happened to me or someone I know. It's hard to know exactly.

If most of what we see via the media is not live, it must be edited: sifted for value, interpreted and re-presented for our convenience. We live in a disco, and the DJ is in charge.

When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry.

Sometimes quantity has a quality all its own.