I clung to the dream like a lifeline, the only thing worth keeping going for. That was why I had agreed to come here. I'd always said I would sell my soul for a pony of my own.

I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.

I did not want to turn to playing golf because golf is about as much exercise as shuffling cards.

I'm a bit of a hippie.

you know you have made a theoretical advance when you can no longer reconstruct why you failed for so long to see the obvious.

Some parts of the Bible are dreadful. In fact, my working title for The Sins of Scripture was "The Terrible Text of The Bible."

I like art that trusts its audience, that's written for readers who like to work hard. I like art that knows its readers are up to the challenge of interacting with difficult material.

Today, I will let go. I will stop trying to control everything. I will stop trying to make myself be and do better, and I will let myself be.

The game is not set. There are so many layers that it is being perceived on. As your own consciousness becomes more refined, the game changes.

I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.

The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.