Vlad's heart sank into his stomach, then squeezed its way down his leg and popped out of the hole in his shoe, where it struck the floor and broke.

...glass words for you, Beloved—rain beads from an abacus of pain...

As a sculptor sculpts a statue, an educator educates our future generation. Beauty depends on the creator.

No one knows if something works until it actually works. That's why you must always try.

I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.

When blame has been assigned, the story is over.

Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.

Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.

It comes with age. I can't watch movies that are inhumane.

Once I've learned all those things and gotten through the hard times, I come out feeling really powerful.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.