I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.

You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker.

The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.

Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

The magic gets lost in translation.

Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.

That's why I've always been appreciative of truly creative radio commercials.

Christian Bale has a kind of genetically engineered handsomeness that's perfect for [John Preston]. He's also a better actor than he ever gets credit for being.

May you travel on the path of light.

Anger should be your servant, not your master

Someone who eats pancakes and jam can't be so awfully dangerous. You can talk to him.

I can't sing very well but I'd like to try.

We don't really watch basketball in Australia.

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

Just having someone make you laugh so hard that it hurts is so healing to me.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

It is time the Arabs and the Jews sat down and settled this dispute in the true Christian spirit.