I'm an early riser and feel that some of the best ideas come to you between 5 and 6 a.m.

I would much rather read a book about Ty Cobb, who was quite possibly a sociopath. It makes for more interesting copy. Some of the most memorable characters in literature were villains.

My favorite part of any baseball book - and I read a lot of them - is the anecdotes. I believe there is a story within every boxscore and for me - the more outrageous the better!

Learn from your rejections and polish your craft. Write for the sheer joy of being creative.

I have always wanted to be a published author. I write baseball books because I love the sport.

They say copying is a form of flattery, I say it's lack of originality.

Prayer is a jouney, a path that is created only by walking it. It creates and reveals oneself in the process.

It's easier to record in LA than in New York and Detroit, because the space in LA is green, and there's sunshine, and I need all those positive vibes.

Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.

In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our real nature.

The United States needs to be made more appealing to legal immigrants.

Most people when they're walking are thinking about where they have to go and what they have to do. But that removes us from happiness.

Soaps might not be the most highly regarding medium but it was a crucial springboard for me and I am forever grateful for it.

Hoping they bury me with ammunition, weed, and shells. Just in case.

A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.