I don't trust anyone who wouldn't.

What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin.

Of course there is a monkey. There is always a monkey.

Time and circumstances change us...and it is pointless to ask why.

A person is no more & no less than the Story of his Passions & Deeds.

Believing something doesn't change who you are. Neither does rejecting something you once believd in.

It dawned on him that he really could be a cop if he wanted to, and it dawned on him that he'd had this revelation while eating a donut, and it that wasn't a sign, he didn't know what was.

The creation of art requires descent into the dark.

What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin. Words are a gift to the dead and a warning to the living.

-It's extremely cool how the words can stay the same but their meaning can change.-Because the reader changes.-EXACTLY

If I am going out into the unknown, it might as well be the really unknown.

She was his only escape, And she was his only prison.

Aggression, rage and violence are archetypal foundations of manhood.

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.

When I sit in Paris in a cafe, surrounded by people, I don't sit casually - I go over a certain sonata in my head and discover new things all the time.

If I ever went, I'd want to go peacefully in my sleep. I wouldn't want to plan my own death.

If my children will live a better life than I did by my getting brain damage, by my being brain dead, then let it be.

I do what I did as a hobby as a kid, you know, and make a living at it. And I just feel like I'm one of the luckiest guys in the world 'cuz I get paid to make toys and play with them.

Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.