The National League is baseball to me.

At home, when I'm not pitching, I'll sit and sign autographs for the kids. I've always done that and I'll continue to do it. That's part of the job.

I don't sit around and read papers about myself. If I see myself on TV, if I don't like it, I change the channel.

I'm just a normal kid who lives to play baseball. I'm living my dream.

A piece of me is gone, " she told me once while we were bra shopping. "I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.

Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.

I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.

If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.

You don't manage priorities, you have them.

I love playing and I love singing, and the writing. There's kind of a symbiotic relationship between the writing and the playing.

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.

I actually find it pretty tedious when magazines ask me to write articles based on my real life, because I've already lived it and there's nothing new to discover. So, I'm unlikely to write a memoir.

Work is a search for daily meaning as well as for daily bread.

All beauty of this world is wet with the dew of tears.