Moral writing is boring.

I think you could probably thaw out a glacier, honey." -Hardy Cates

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.

Thankfully, I'm lucky enough to be able to eat ice cream. I've got to have my cookies and cream! But I work out a lot, so I burn a lot of calories.

I don't care what other people's judgments come down to-I care what my judgments come down to.

No one is entitled to the truth.

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

Don't I ever do anything else but take soulful walks down the Bayswater Road, I thought, as I walked soulfully down the Baywater Road.

Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.

At some level, you have to be able to say, "This is my task." It's in small, local ways that you keep yourself alive and refresh ideas that are always going into dead abstraction.

As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again.