My mom fed us a million balls. Dad took us to tournaments. Couldn't have done it without them. We had a happy tennis family.

I want to feel better. My wife says she likes me not drinking, not so many highs, so many lows, I don't lose temper, I'm more patient.

... a writer concocts a different story for every reader.

Don’t talk while having food was only meant to be in integrity with food.

As a writer, I'm always at the mercy of my inspiration, my intuition, and my imagination.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.

I am generally a very happy and easygoing person.

Greatness is earned, not given.

My teacher once told me – ”No one is perfect……..that is why pencils have erasers.”

Fundamentalists of different religions have more in common with each other than they do with the moderates of their own religions.

I'm changing my flow up so much on every song that you're not going to be able to compare me to nobody but me.

Never lose the groove to find a note.