I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Christianity is called a spiritual walk. It's not a run and it's not a jog. It's a walk you do from day to day and that makes you stable.

My main philosophy is that money is a loan from God. I'm in charge of it. I'm responsible for investin it, giving some of it away, providing for my family, and protecting it.

The game shouldn't be called baseball. It should be called adjustments.

No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be... it's a crapshoot.

I think you should have a mindset of getting to the playoffs, because once you get in the playoffs, it is kind of a crapshoot.

Being on the ballot is a lot different than getting in.

Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except that you've got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict.

In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, "Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.

What do you call a slap that's waiting an inch away from your cheek refusing to back away? A caress

It is always dullest before the yawn.

Come and see...place no head above your own

To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

The tendency when you dictate is to overwrite, because you're not counting pages, you don't really know what the hell the page count is.

I never was Carrie Bradshaw, but imagine how great it was to be told, "You are obligated to kiss all these men, to dress like that, and to carry on like that!" They were great guys, too.

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.