I think I earned the players' respect, and that's the ultimate in life, isn't it? I didn't care if they liked me or disliked me, as long as I had their respect.

Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right. He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame.

There are umpires, and there are those who hold the title.

Sal turned, an eye stalk hanging from his teeth.

You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient or has trouble in school.

Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first place is that I'm coked to the gills on something utterly wrong for what I have.

Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.

You know how everybody has that one weird creepy uncle? Well, Seth Green looks like he got raped by all of them.

There are thousands of lesser chakras. Chakras are doorways to other worlds. When you focus on them, you step into something else.

The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier.

Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate change.

Joy is the grace we say to God.

There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.