It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
Some people think I'm mean, until they get to know me.
My timing’s a little off. But I’m about to get hotter than Jamaica in the middle of August.
Life is a challenge that you need. There's things in life that are going to throw you into the ground, but if you learn how to get up, that means you are not a quitter.
I'm not thinking home run, I just want to put a good swing on the ball. When you go looking for home runs, you get off of your swing. So you don't think of homers when you go up to the plate.
Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.
This is our f---g city. And nobody is going to dictate our freedom.
God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance.
I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this home of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised.
Writing a novel, in an unplanned and unpredictable way, makes you engaged; it takes you into yourself, and it becomes something between you and the character for a moment, and then you move back into the structure of the book. I love those moments, because they are completely unbidden.
If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.