"I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter."

"My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball."

"I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing."

"Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth."

"To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives."

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."

"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."