A walk is as good as a home run.

Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.

The reason we call that pitch up and in is because the arms are attached to the shoulder.

Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out.

That pitch wasn't down and in, that pitch was down and up.

Roy Oswalt is a drop and drive pitcher. What is a drop and drive pitcher? He is a guy who drops and drives. Very simple.

When a catcher has to use his thumb to give signs, that means the pitcher has more than four pitches.

One thing about ground balls: they don't go out of the ballpark.

When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.

I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit!

Watch Darren Daulton use his mitt like a glove.

If you can't laugh, you won't make it.

A manpossessesnothing certainlysavea brief loanof his own body.

Music is an indirect force for change

If you can give people happiness, you're in their hearts. Now you can just start having conversations with people that you would not have had under other circumstances.

I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.

The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing.

I'm basically a poetry scholar, and I'm happier here in my studio with my row of Chinese dictionaries than I am, frankly, at Lincoln Center.

I definitely fell in love with Dracula when I was 13. I found it so fascinating and so dark and romantic.

The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work, or studying for work: it is work.

Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.