When you're reaching for a star, there's a long way to fall.
It's good to find the barrel of the bat again.
Hitting at the top of the order is a good thing. You get more at-bats. I'm excited to see how this develops.
I've always been taught to play the game hard. Baseball is such a tough game, it really humbles you at times, you just have to try not to get too high or too low.
I know it sounds stupid and cliche, but I just want to get better. I want to keep improving.
I figured out that there are occasions where you have to get pumped up and take charge, situations where you have to have fun and situations where you need to settle down.
I never want to look in the mirror and say, 'What if? What if I had run harder? What if I had dived for that groundball?'
Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it.
A lot of people mistake the persona that I create in poetry and fiction with me. A lot of people claim to know me who don't really know me. They know the work, or they know the persona in the work, and they confuse that with me, the writer. They don't realize that the persona is also a creation and a fabrication, a composite of my friends and myself all pasted together.
Gilles Deleuze believed that every society needed a madman so we could feel better about ourselves. I do my best to fill that role.
When did you throw yourselves away?