When you stop looking over your shoulder, you shall see that the future is way nicer than the past.

If you don't write, then read.

The thing is and I know this is going to sound strange- that I seem to love you sort of desperately.

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.

Pardon me for this resolution … I know that this will be a disgrace that I bring to my people, but I cannot help it. Love is the blame for it. I go in peace ... pray for me ... good-bye all.

My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.

A marriage doesn't have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.

We don't have to do this. Just say the word and I can have a jet here in an hour. We can go anywhere

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.

Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect.