My dream has become a reality now, and it's the best feeling I've ever had.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Cleveland fans are awesome.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have.

I always believed that I’d return to Cleveland and finish my career there.

You have to do what's best for you and what's going to make you happy at the end of the day, because no one can live with the consequences or anything that comes with your decision besides you.

I'm taking my talents to South Beach.

Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.

I'm ready to accept the challenge. I'm coming home.

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.

Shenanigans is a financial model on the catwalk.

Much is written about the Batman because he is publicly exposed in print. Very little is known personally about his creator, because I haven't given out that many interviews.

It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.

I don't understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the 'perfect,' when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view.

I'm just not arbitrarily choosing to have five guitars play one type of thing. In that way there's a definite similarity between a symphony orchestra and the 100 guitar symphony.

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.

... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.

And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into.

I'm not pert and perky anymore - when you're over 60, it's 'feisty.