When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team.

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.

Setting the remains of a freshly erupted volcano, I walk.

If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Nothing I've done is like anything else I've done before.

Receding from grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there.

'I've got children', 'I've got wealth.' This is the way a fool brings suffering on himself. He does not even own himself, so how can he have children or wealth?

As long as people want to hear me play and as long as I'm able to play, then I will. I enjoy playing and performing. If I wasn't doing that, what else would I do?

It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.