There's an appreciation, not unlike that for dancers or tightrope walkers, of the body undergoing tests and coming through them by courage and technique; a desire for "clean" results.

Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead.

Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy; a relief from the seriousness of the real world, with its unending pressures and often grave obligations.

I want my poor value to exist past me, somewhere else.

Be safe, she whispered. Then she closed her eyes and said in a low, broken monotone, "I love you.KailaniSiobhan Fallon

The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from.

Nothing keeps a company honest and efficient like the threat of other companies coming along and taking its business away.

Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.

You have your vision and you need to be focused, but you have to listen. I never felt a sense that the wheels were going to come off because we're all friends and family. It was all good.

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death. The greatest tragedy is to be alive and not know why

Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not forlong, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own.

I've played [Scrabble] tournaments for about 20 years. My daughter, Erin, who lives with me, also travels to tournaments. While I'm not a top division player, I've won a number of tournaments.

One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions... like a state of sheer terror.