Philadelphia fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets and the Liberty Bell.

Never try to snow a snowman.

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas.

I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge - they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.

Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.

Right now I feel that I've got my feet on the ground as far as my head is concerned.

How can a guy win a game if you don't give him any runs?

People keep telling me I never lived up to my potential, that I wasted my talent. . . I just didn't have as much as people thought. I got more ink for doing less than any pitcher who ever lived.

When I lose, I drink, and when I win I celebrate.

I regret that I can't sit in the stands and watch me.

Get excited about life!

People may make fun of me because I’m wearing something odd, but it’s still good to be alive.

Practice brings better results than prayer.

When I thought of Eric with someone else, I wanted to rip out all his beautiful blonde hair. By the roots. In clumps.

People'd be like, "Oh, spending taxpayer money." It's like, "No, no, I actually I'm paying for all of this. The only thing I don't pay for is Secret Service and an airplane."

You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.

It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me.

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.

Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing.

In college you have the license to do things you'll never do again, so have fun with it.