If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.

Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.

Don’t bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don’t “purify” it.

Two things compel me to move. First, the fear of being alone. I don’t want to be alone here. Second, the aching need to beat Blake in any way.

I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it?

It is possible that we can get so busy doing work 'for' the Lord that we have no time FOR the Lord.

I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world.

See, ya are what ya are in this world. That's either one of two things: Either you're somebody, or you ain't nobody.

He (Sandy Koufax) throws a 'radio ball,' a pitch you hear, but you don't see.

Who affects useless singularities has surely a little mind.

My most difficult opponent is myself. When I am playing I often involuntarily make a world champion out of a candidate master.

I do not consider myself the most stylish rapper out there.

Widows are divided into two classes - the bereaved and relieved.