Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.

My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.

Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.

Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.

There are things you stand up for because it’s right.