This poor little one-horse town.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

The world of chemical reactions is like a stage, on which scene after scene is ceaselessly played. The actors on it are the elements.

I think anything is possible if you have the mindset and the will and desire to do it and put the time in.

Nine lives added to my one life makes a perfect 10.

There are hundreds of good reasons for having a cat, but all you need is one.

Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.

If someone met me on a game day, he wouldn't like me. The days in between, I'm the goodest guy you can find.

My only day off is the day I pitch.

My only day off is the day I pitch (in regards to how hard he works out during off-days).

Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.

We wouldn't think of rising in the morning without a face-wash, but we often neglect that purgative cleansing of the Word of the Lord. It wakes us up to our responsibility.

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.

Sometimes I criticize movies. It's not fun to watch a movie with me, because I'll go, "That was a really bad shot." My mom's like, "Shut up, Chloe, watch the film!"

The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances...a tiny relationship - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Spending on the military doesn't increase the deficit.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

The only people who get paid what they're worth are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are innovative, who work without a map.