Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.

In America you're conditioned to regard everything as a contest. You have to make the Ten Best Dressed List, win this, win that. It drives me nuts sometimes. Who cares, for Christ's sake?

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.

Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.