He hadn't "abused" alcohol, but had spent almost four years sitting in a chair drinking jug wine around the clock and looking, variously, at the wall, the window blind, and the TV screen.

How could I miss you while you are never off of my mind.....while you are never missing from my heart

Beauty is like the storm. Beauty has its natural motions. A calmness of spirit signals its arrival. Its departure is marked by misery.

Some people that are in charge are usually less intelligent than the people who work under them. The reason why those people are in charge and you aren’t is because you have a conscience.

Real ballplayers pass the stuffing by rolling it up in a ball and batting it across the table with a turkey leg.

Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.

The grass is always greener around the fire hydrant.

So the question really is, Why doesn't that pain make you say, I won't do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you don't.

Not that money is a driving force. It's an honor to play for your country.