Sometimes in this game its as good to be lucky as it is to be good.

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.

Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field.

It's easy, man. I just take the ball and throw. Hard! It's a God-given talent! No one can teach it to you. They either hit it or they don't.

I think I have signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?

Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball. He treated me like a damn colored boy.

When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling with ruby, moistened lips once her cup of Death is welcome sipped.

Writing is both mask and unveiling.

This IS exactly how things look just before your dreams ignite!

I am familiar with the phrase, ‘needle in a haystack’ and I think I understand its meaning more than I wish to.

You’re crazy, ” he hisses. “Too true.

Actors always want you to believe something else even though that's the truth and to do that well it's almost a dying art.

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.

So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.

Actors have no color. That's the art form.