I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist.

Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.

Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.

I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.

There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids who live by surfing the Web.

I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.

The best defense is a good story.

Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave.

What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

You can't change the past.....why bother?...linger too much in the thought, you only get pulled down....Tomorrow is yet to come...GET PREPARED, that is one day you can change.

The twilight seems invidious.It simply can’t let the sun hide away when darkness is just another name for night..

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

I grew up in Chicago, and there was always snow. In Los Angeles there never was, so we would always import snow!

I think the music of the Fifties is really good. I suspect it's much better musically than much of what's available now. Not in terms of production, but in terms of content.

This is the way I've always thought it should be. We've always blamed ourselves, but I guess we know what cylinder wasn't firing!

I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that...

Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?

I think movies are great and I have a great time making them but they're not what keeps you warm at night, or what's ultimately the most important thing in anyone's life journey.

I've accomplished everything a person can accomplish on a basketball court, but I never thought about the future when I was younger. I never made plans for the next stage in my life.