I don't think you ever stopped Bobby Orr. You contained Bobby Orr, but you never stopped him. When we played the Bruins and Bobby had to give up the puck, it was a good play.

Oh, yes, I love sleepless nights.

Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around.

If people are troubled by their view, they ought to offer these New Orleanians, and black and poor people in the places like the Lower Ninth Ward around the country, a reason to believe otherwise.

People are not interested in truths

One can definitely learn a lot of valuable things from successful people, if one isn't too busy envying them.

The Revolution won't be televised. It's already available on Amazon in ebook format.

Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.

Sometimes in order to make progress and move ahead, you have to stand up and do the wrong thing.

The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.

Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse?a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.

I think, therefore I am ... not here.

When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages.