How do you even start a book you know is going to be your last?

It's tough in the NHL you have to produce on a high level. And everybody expects you to do it because you make a lot of money. And I never minded it. I always want to be that guy.

Even talent is rarely distinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work.

I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat.

Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Billy Loes was the only player in the majors who could lose a ground ball in the sun

Grief changes shape, but it never ends. People have a misconception that you can deal with it and say, 'It's gone, and I'm better.' They're wrong.

I always say that you define what success is to yourself.

I think writing is a very political act. I think that any writer who says it's not, is simply a writer who is disavowing the political connotations of what they write.

Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace.