I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer.

Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers.

A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.

Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.

It helps to be stupid if you're a relief pitcher. Relievers had to get into a zone of their own. I just hope I'm stupid enough.

Strikes (1981) are real life. It took up seven weeks of real time. That's a fifth of a pregnancy.

I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.

Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.

Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.

Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

Knowledge has a great power. Therefore, unethical use of knowledge can be extremely harmful.

Men exist because a vibrator can't fix a flat tire. On second thought, I should just buy a AAA card...

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the manifest quintessence of all the teachings of the Vedic scriptures.

In a moment we lost our minds hereand lay our spirits down.Today we lived a thousand years,all we have is now.

You have to become that infinite formless creation, which is life, to know it. It cannot be known in an intellectual sense. That is enlightenment.

What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them, attack them. Prose poems are natural fence-sitters.

Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war has to be a moral crusade.

If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

We have a person that wants to balance the budget by charging $1,000 to every family who spanks their child.