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The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game – in hospitals, homes, prisons – those who have seldom seen a game, who can’t travel to a game, those who are blind.
We didn’t have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.
I love you – I am at rest with you – I have come home.
I like America. I think it’s pretty cool.
Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It’s a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.
A man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you’re paying them can they ever really be true friends?
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
I had lost relationships with my dad, my brother and sister and I was just like, you know what, this is definitely the time to just get it together and so that’s what I did.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
The future is today.
I’m a hardcore libertarian – I want everything legal – but I also believe that you have the right to free association.
Husbands are like fires – they go out when they’re left unattended.
Every country has the government it deserves.
Success is never final, but failure can be.
I’ve never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy… I’ve always had friends and loved ones and everything, so it wasn’t like, ‘Oh man, I gotta fill some void that was left by high school.’ I had a great high-school experience.
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require.
I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.
Look, there’s no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
There are those people who are in your corner no matter what, you can’t do any wrong, even when you do wrong. And then there are those people that no matter what you do they are going to dislike you and that’s not going to change.
When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put it on top, your soul is in that food, and there’s something about that that can never be made by a company that has three million employees.
Candor is a compliment it implies equality. It’s how true friends talk.
Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it… and the minute it takes off, I’m not gonna be home for a while.
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He’s the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.
Winning isn’t everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you’re doing it in a way that’s healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity.
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
I’m going to be in technology for a long time.
We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn’t ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.
Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain’s ready room died it was always a sad moment.
I kind of came to the conclusion after I did finally get married that love and relationships are just a series of horrific losses with hopefully one win.
There’s something about the sound of a train that’s very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends.
I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.
Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
I’m proud of what I look like. I’m proud that I look like my mom.
And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
I’m not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I’ve got some aspects of cool in me, I guess.