Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead.

Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy; a relief from the seriousness of the real world, with its unending pressures and often grave obligations.

There's an appreciation, not unlike that for dancers or tightrope walkers, of the body undergoing tests and coming through them by courage and technique; a desire for "clean" results.

I want my poor value to exist past me, somewhere else.

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

And as men believe, so their world goes." - Merlin

You never die from a snake bite, you can't be unbitten it's in the way, what continues to pour through you long after the bite has taken place.

The worlds originate so that truth may come and dwell therein.

I was ranked the second most conservative member in the House.

I'm all for it. In these days, regional marketing is the only way to survive.

The story behind every song is individual to itself.

We're also a multi-site church, so we have other pastors on other campuses who want to read the message before the video plays on the weekend services. So it just works better for me.

I appeal to the Youth and those on the ground: start talking to each other across divisions of race and political organizations.

After 2001, everyone in the Soulquarians blew up, which wasn't expected. We all got the success, and then everybody froze.