The Yankees would be a much better team if they signed a proven closer instead of Tanaka.

I pitch like my hair is on fire.

Bunts lead to more big innings than anything else.

On-base percentage really doesn't mean that much.

To make him important in one’s life requires an overactive imagination. Unfortunately, mine never knows when to quit.

-Do you think it's dirty money?-All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.

How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.

In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love.

The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

Change is an action not just an epiphany!

One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.