I'm only interested in winning ball games and I can't be worrying about whether the sun's out or the moon's out.

George Brett could get good wood on an aspirin.

I tell him, "Attaway to hit, George."

All of my close friends have been in my life for years. My best friends are all people I met in grade school, going back as far as 3rd grade.

I've learned one thing about life. We're a good deal like that ball, dancing on the fountain. We know as little about the forces that move us, and move the world around us, as that empty ball does.

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about...One thing's for sure—no one but you can be the hero of your story.

To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.

Electronic music is really weird right, because it is bleeding into the mainstream, but, at the same time, it's fashion.

The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.

God comes to you disguised as your life.

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity.