I hope I never do anything to hurt baseball.

The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.

I hope he (Babe Ruth) lives to hit one-hundred homers in a season. I wish him all the luck in the world. He has everybody else, including myself, hopelessly outclassed.

We all have this perfect little image of who we want to be, but it is unnecessary. Throw the image away. You're already you just be the best version of yourself.

I had to be an adult, be a father without a son, so for one last moment I needed to be a son who needed his mother.

With every breath, I breathe in so much of inspiration. I feel if there is one thing as free and as important as oxygen, it's inspiration.

Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.

When I was four, I started taking lessons from my mom. That's pretty much how I started.

A dish around which I see too many people doesn't tempt me.

Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.

My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They're down and dirty, real and more fun.

you have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.

Nobody's reasonable when they're in love. That's the whole point of it.