I got a PBS mind in an MTV world.

It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Some people think there's a woman to blame, but I know - it's my own damn fault

[Writing] is edit, edit, edit. It's almost like getting a boat ready to go to sea. You've still got a countless number of things left to fix, but you've just got to go, "O.K., everybody get on the boat. We're going, ready or not."

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.

Fun is about as good a habit as there is.

There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink.