But there was also a little of that thing they say about New Englanders: Being from here doesn't prevent me from doing anything, it just prevents me from enjoying it.

The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.

And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else.

If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.

People in New England think that the Red Sox won that series, three games to four.

A million years went by quick.

A good conscience is an epitome of good life and a true standard of living

Never declare fate your enemy

They dabbled in dark magic like finger painters in first grade art class, and then most of them were either killed by their creations or ran the other way from the nightmares they unleashed.

This is just a phase, right? This whole bloodlust thing?

You want to keep the severity of our environmental problems in mind enough to keep yourself motivated but not enough to paralyze you into depression.

When I'm doing well, it's like I'm in a nice little ballet. Everything is going slow all around me. It's very peaceful.

Preppy clothes are built to last, since they certainly won't go out of style.

How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides.