During the offseason, I go to the movies almost every day. You hear about women buying shoes? I buy DVDs. I definitely have a problem.

My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.

I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots.

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other teams - I'm not knocking other teams - but there's only one shortstop on the Yankees.

Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests.

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

This is why you play - to get an opportunity to play in the playoffs.

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

I'm not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.

You don't just accidentally show up in the World Series.

Love is forever. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be love. The world is beautiful. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be the world.

a town with more drinking joints than reading joints has a problem reading can solve

If you love everyone, how will you ever find an enemy?

Trust your intuitive heart.

For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker.

The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.

My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region.

Autism is not a disability, it's a different ability.

I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.

When I go train hopping and I look up into the sky, there are always so many more stars than I remember there were.