On being the guest of honor at an awards banquet: "Thank you for making this day necessary."

You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.

You can observe a lot by just watching.

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

All pitchers are liars or crybabies.

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.

Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a powerful motivator.

Fathom your motivation so that you understand what you are prepared to do and why.

When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.

I don't watch horror movies because they scare me!

Nice manners are the secret keys to the universe.

By about the sixth romance I knew I wasn't in exactly the right place. I liked writing action. And I wanted to write a book with a little more edge than I was allowed in romance.

Around the mighty master came The marvels which his pencil wrought, Those miracles of power whose fame Is wide as human thought.

I'm more interested than Philip Roth in understanding women, even if I do it imperfectly. But that book, Portnoy's Complaint, is literary punk in this way that is rare.

Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.

The security of faith does not make us motionless or close us off, but sends us forth to bear witness and to dialogue with all people.

No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.