There are umpires, and there are those who hold the title.

Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right. He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame.

I think I earned the players' respect, and that's the ultimate in life, isn't it? I didn't care if they liked me or disliked me, as long as I had their respect.

Raven scowled through his too-long bangs. “The Angel Song doesn’t hurt humans. It only affects the evil within.” “Then you should be writhing on the ground with the hounds, ” Mace mumbled.

Would you buy potato chips that listed potato by-product or potato digest as an ingredient

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Be hard on yourself and easy on others. Carry your own cross but never lay one on the back of another

I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines.

Extreme sport has only ever been about goals and the ways to achieve these goals. Adrenaline plays a part, but it's never in the foreground.

Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor. He spoke with pompous exaggeration. Whether man were the best or the worst of created beings.

Nothing exists except through language.

I tend to only write productively for one to two hours per day, so there is plenty of time left over for me to work a day job!

That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.