I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.

Even Jesus had trouble with 12 guys.

I don't know, but I stepped on a scale that gives fortunes and the card read Come back in 15 minutes alone.

Divine souls suffer violent opposition from mediocre minds.

I hated all this: the mystery of myself.

After all you didn't answer "Why?", why you close and reject it... "Not Interested", doesn't sound like a reason, does it?

A winner is a person, who is programmed for victory in advance

God is gone up on high with a triumphant noise.

I'm the Connie Francis of rock 'n' roll.

stay as strong as you can and during the times you can't, let other people be strong for you.

Was this love? Because it hurt. It was like a bit of glass stuck somewhere important--his heart or his head, and it was throbbing.

You don't need a dead father to explain a character's sadness. And impressing yourself with wit/cleverness often feels like what it is - authorial intrusion.

Philosophy ... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth.

The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington.