I learned early on that most yoga poses are about showing off. You find something amazing you can do, and suddenly, Shazam—you’re a guru, ready for your groupies.

Although yoga is supposedly noncompetitive, I can’t help that my Alpha nature requires that I go for the hardest variation of every pose, always pushing my limits as far as possible.

Is there any power like prayer?

Jack reads too many books. He thinks we're going to drive all year and have great adventures.

What sunshine is to flowers smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles to be sure but scattered along life's pathway the good they do is inconceivable.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

That old man...had my division massacred at Gettysburg!

Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.

I've always been interested in themes of memory, paranoia, and revenge.

It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books . . .

I think he [composer Joe Raposo] was the first man who kissed me on the cheek.