Success, like fashion, is a fickle companion and can leave one in the wink of an eye.

Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think it is.

I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he sees her in the face of a young girl in the park, buying a snowball under an oak tree by the baseball diamond. But she belongs to back there, to somebody else, and that thought sometimes rends your heart in a way that you never share with anyone else.

The real gladiators of the world are so humble in their origins and unremarkable in appearance that when we stand next to them in a grocery-store line, we never guess how brightly their souls can burn in the dark.

How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?

A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves

If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next.