Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and he went to the umpire, the next thing we knew they were fighting about it.

I've been in eleven no-hitters you know.

So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.

My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before.A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable loss.

I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.

You left me, ripped out my heart, and then came back acting like a robot, and you know what? We made it through. You and I, good or bad, belong together. We make each other whole.

Don't put your nose into somebody else's laundry, if you are not willing to fold your own.

The true Christian hero will appear in the cause of Christ, not only when it is prevailing, but when it seems to be declining; (he) will be on the right side, though it be not the rising side.

...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.

Where you stand, where you are, that's what your life is right there, regardless of how painful it is or how enjoyable it is. That's what it is.

I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.