High school games would just as big a deal to me as any major league game.

I think I should be allowed to be only fair, or even mediocre, for a while.

The author says his young son, adopted from South Korea, occasionally burps and says thank you but otherwise is doing all right.

The pitching coach was bugged by the author's technique because he had never seen anyone do it before, and besides, it wasn't the coach's idea.

The author emphasizes the importance of self-forgetfulness when his statistics were marred by a bad outing. He forgot all of that outing to such an extent that he quipped, "What was my name?

Front offices are more interested in players that are far than players that are near.

The older they get, the better they get when they were younger

All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property

But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.

Women are outside the law; they make nothing, they say yes or no to some collections of whereases.

I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.

A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

I went through a really low period about 13 years ago, when all aspects of my career and everything went completely wrong.

Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fire blazes. No one ever thanked him.

Looking for me, Angel?

I don't think that my particular religious convictions should be held against me in this campaign any more than the Prime Minister's lack of convictions should be held against her.