I made one decision in my life based on money and I swore I would never do it again.

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

The idea that I [should] trust my eyes more than the stats, I don't buy that because I've seen magicians pull rabbits out of hats and I know that the rabbit's not in there.

When your enemy's making mistakes, don't interrupt him.

No matter how successful you are, change is always good.

You have to face reality some time. But there's no sense in facing it until somebody forces you to.

I hate losing more than I want to win.

Certainly, you're not going to able to go and pull a Mark Mulder out of your hat somewhere.

It’s hard not to be romantic about baseball

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.

After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.

Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings.

Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam.

Witness Donald Trump's current presidential campaign. So first people need to find the white spaces, the unexploited or underexploited niches where there is less competition and more opportunity.

Gaining people's trust might be harder than gaining all creation. But, what is harder than gaining people's trust is having to abandon them.

We kill with antibiotics and antiseptics, and if our slaughter is ineffectual we use surgery to expel the offending organ from our presence. We destroy the body in order to save it.

I think sometimes older people wind up being a little childlike. They've done their time, now they get to do what they want.

Getting involved is so, so . . . involving.

The way we understand both our present and our future depends on what we have lived through.