Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around.

I don't think you ever stopped Bobby Orr. You contained Bobby Orr, but you never stopped him. When we played the Bruins and Bobby had to give up the puck, it was a good play.

Oh, yes, I love sleepless nights.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

The artist realizes himself in his work

I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.

Thinking is like a fountain. Once it gets going at a certain pressure, well, it almost impossible to turn it off. And, my hat! what odd things come up with the water!("Out Of The Deep")

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

We have no hope and yet we live in longing.

Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation.

Some people, their whole lives, are just injustice collectors. They’re going to find new injustices every day. That’s what they do, and that’s what they are.

Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.

Songwriting never gets old. There's always stuff to write about.