I grew up in Dolton, just south of Chicago, about a 20-minute drive from old Comiskey Park.

You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker.

The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.

Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

The magic gets lost in translation.

Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.

That's why I've always been appreciative of truly creative radio commercials.

Christian Bale has a kind of genetically engineered handsomeness that's perfect for [John Preston]. He's also a better actor than he ever gets credit for being.

I have always found that actively lovingsaves one from a morbid preoccupationwith the shortcomings of society.

My soulmust reachinto the cloudsand touch the beauty of madness.

Never say more than is necessary.

Sticks and stones may break your bones, and words – can cut your insides.

One desire, my friends, one: to kill yourself. You must desire this. You must feel that a voyage of discovery is more important than all the little trips which the normal consumer self wants to buy.

The officers of the branch of the Force (the Obscene Publications Squad) have a discouraging club tie, on which a book is depicted being cut in half by a larger pair of scissors.

moments bleed together, no span to time

these hips have never been enslaved, they go where they want to go they do what they want to do. these hips are mighty hips. these hips are magic hips

Maybe I'm damned if I do, but with every other beat I got left in my heart, you know I'd rather be damned with you.

The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen.