THIS IS A COMPLIMENT?You're incrediburgableshe saidwhich is to sayYou're a little like incrediblebut a lot more like ahamburger.

Why shouldn't a mystical theology be possible? 'I want to touch God or become God, ' I declared in my journal. All through that year I abandoned myself intermittently to these deliriums.

It is hard to be number one, and it is even harder to stay there because everyone is trying to knock you off the top.

There's one thing I believe, is that I don't know anything and anything could happen.

I don't think a man who is fifteen years younger than me should tell me he is proud of me unless he is my sober coach or my time-travel dad.

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.

I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood.

If we were capable of thinking of everything, we would still be living in Eden, rent-free with all-you-can-eat buffets and infinitely better daytime TV programming.

A coach who is not teaching leads to the worst thing in a program -- players not learning.

Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry.

Honest, intelligent criticism is an aid to the progress of an effort.