Baseball was my refuge. When I came on the field, I did my job, and did the best I could and focused on that. Then I went home and I was miserable. That was pretty much my routine every day.?

I just do my best to put the ball in play and put it in play where no one's going to make a play on it and hopefully drive some runners in.

What is next to ecstasy?Pain.What is next to pain?Nothingness.What is next to nothingness?Hell.

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

Women on the streets want money when we meet. I take them for a little ride, chop, chop, chop.

Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.

The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.

We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't hard.

Helmer: "Before all else you are a wife and a mother." Nora: "That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being."

Sometimes maybe children also fulfill their parents' secrets desire.

I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment

I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to hold the crowds back.