I wish I were less awkward around strangers. I never know what to say when someone asks me who I am and what the hell I'm doing in their house.

To a writer, an open browser tab is like a glass of whiskey. 1 or 2 can help the work. Too many ensures that nothing gets done.

When all hope is lost, pig-headed refusal to acknowledge reality will always save the day.

We're doing everything in our power to make sure all the names are spelled correctly. We have up to eight weeks before they deliver the monument from Vermont to make any corrections in the spellings.

The brain isn't very much like a computer, although it doesn't do a bad job, considering that it's built by unskilled labor and programmed more by pure chance than anything else.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts

Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth's gods.

It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.

I thought being on stage was an amazing feeling, but there is nothing that can top watching my wife bring our son into this world.

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.