It's no fun throwing fastballs to guys who can't hit them. The real challenge is getting them out on the stuff they can hit.

I was the biggest, most hopeless and most violent drunk in baseball.

Don’t cry for them to be happy.

The way he looked at her made her heart beat fast. "I like you, Natalie." She could not let that mean anything to her. "That's natural. I'm likable.

There's a fine line between writing the poem and the poem writing itself. You have to be there and not be there, too.

'I don't say a Zionist must be insane,' said President Weizmann, 'but it helps if he is.'

I think that it's proper to warn people when they have clearly crossed the line between the Kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of the cults.

Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

I have looked at so many photographs, I can not see them anymore.

Focusing on solutions fuels progress.

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.