You keep shooting. You hope it goes in, and you smile.

When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. Thats just the way it was.

If they can play eight more years, then I can too. I'm in better shape than they are.

Winning is always fun, but the car is more important.

We've played with a lot of confidence and that's been the key so far. Hopefully, we can take more confidence into the playoffs.

It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.

She is something else.

Pretending to feel something you don't can often lead you to the real thing, in some form.

Sadness was a very heavy thing.

There is a popular fallacy that falling down is the mark of a poor skater. But the truth is that when one stops falling, he has probably stopped improving.

Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.

When you sing, you pray twice.

Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagine a greater success than she's enjoyed.

Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind - -vividly, forcefully.

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.