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

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.

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.'

When it comes to food, there are two large categories of eaters, those who do not worry about what they eat but should, and those who do worry about what they eat but should not.

Awake, O brave one! Arise, O lion-heart! Be the messenger that spreads compassion.

To care for others is called humanity.

You’re demanding fidelity, and I’ll give you that. But if I intended to be celibate, I would’ve become a priest.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long - GOOD music.

The only thing he cares about.

Obviously those who burn to be professional jesters mean that they want to be successful comedians. And those are always an elite, microscopic portion of the population. But oh, how they try.

I never really understood how movies were made, because it was such a technical accomplishment.

Cash in must exceed cash out.