A fan without a team is like a hog without truffles - she has nothing to root for.

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth.

Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.

As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.

Depression is not 'anger turned inward'; if anything, anger is depression turned outward. Follow the trail of anger inward, and there you will find the small, still voice of pain.

Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence is.

Baseball lasts as long as it takes. Like life, like love, baseball exists in real time.

For some of the large indignities of life, the best remedy is direct action. For the small indignities, the best remedy is a Charlie Chaplin movie. The hard part is knowing the difference.

Science is a form of arrogance control.

The second-sweetest set of three words in English is 'I don't know.'

Strange star-like object over Oslo right before Obama arrives. A gift of a golden medal given by a group of wise men... Nah.

When our heart wants to live in purity & do the right thing, God will keep us from falling into sin.

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

I think that inevitably, the trouble our characters go through is a kind of metaphor for what's happening in ourselves.

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

I think there's more of opportunity to win games in the National League than the American League because there are more decisions to make.

My mother is my last point of security in relation to my past, and if that breaks, I will not ever have that type of pure love or pure attachment.

Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.