W.P. Kinsella Quotes

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.

If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get into real trouble with my plot, I go out for a pizza with my husband.

Every time I mention her, Magnus says, "Are you two getting along?" in raised, hopeful tones, like we're endangered pandas who need to make a baby.

Like most of us, I'm used to juggling about 52 roles in life. Wife. Mother. Sister. Friend. Author. Sometimes I feel a bit 'multiple-personality'.

she doesn’t really have a sense of humor. I think she’d like to have one—it’s just that she doesn’t quite understand what jokes are for.

And maybe now you'll start treating everybody with respect. Not just the people you think are important.

It's just the way things are. And you can't dwell on what might have been. You have to look at what is.

My life has changed, and I'm changing with it.

We all fail to appreciate each day just how much we already possess. Light, air, freedom, the companionship of friends.

I don't have time to read nonfiction.

It is hard to compare the eras, but Joe Jackson and Ty Cobb from the past, Sandy Koufax and Roger Clements from the present.

You can't just switch off your feelings because the other person did.

After the strike, I lost interest. In reality, neither players nor owners care in the least about the fans. The greed of both factions has destroyed baseball's credibility, at least for the present.

[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.

We’re on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what’s more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?

I did a lot of shopping for her in Tokyo because the colors here are very conservative. A shopaholic would have a coat in every color and lots of accessories

To have someone who never makes a mistake, never finds her personal life in disarray, never worries about work-life balance? I think that would be unreal. What Im writing is real.

Our whole family thrives under pressure. It's like our family motto or something. Apart from my brother Peter, of course. He had a nervous break down. But the rest of us.

I'll show Luke I can fit into the city. I'll show him I can be a true New Yorker. I'll go the gym, and then I'll eat a bagel, and I'll ... shoot someone, maybe? Or maybe just the gym will be enough.

My voice is clotted with unshed tears.

Found a good voice and took advantage of it. Each of my specialties was like a prospector discovering a vein of gold. I worked each until the vein was exhausted.

I've heard that sometimes farmers out in the field ... hear voices.

In a market economy with the division and specialization of labor, people use others as means to achieve their ends. This is the essence of market cooperation.

Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.

We're in one of the biggest tech bubbles we've ever had.

Don’t think about it. Don’t think about what could have been. It’s too unbearable.

If you want something you can't afford, think what else that money could buy: a week's groceries, a month's rent, or a weekend away. That will put things into perspective.

And we spend the rest of the evening getting very pissed and eating ice cream, as we always do when something good or bad happens to either one of us.

I've always had this deep-down conviction that I'm not like everybody else, and there's an amazingly exciting new life waiting for me just around the corner.

I have just created something totally illogical.

Before I knew how to do anything, I was figuring out how to be in a band.

I don't know anyone on my mom's or dad's side that was a musician.

I'm not going to pretend I'm someone I'm not. I'm not going to put on a pre-fab identity.

It's fun to look backwards and be like, "Oh, this song never really worked live before but now it will sound cool with this lineup."

I always go through different phases of how I write and record. It takes me a long time to kind of conceptualize what feels right.

Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.

That's the trouble with having the whole world love you. One day, you wake up and it's flirting with your best friend instead. And you don't know what to do. You're thrown.

I think a lot of people still fantasise about that first love and what might happen if they rekindled the relationship.

Everyone knows revenge is a dish best served when you've had enough time to build up enough vitriol and fury.

A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right.

There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.

If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are.

...you may be able to sway people's heads. But you can't sway their hearts.

Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone’s advice, then bother to listen to it.

But you can't stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat.

You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.

I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.

Women need chocolate. It's a scientific fact.

Everyone knows the first rule of business is "Look good during confrontations." Or if it isn't, it should be.