“People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.”

“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.”

“What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.”

“Foolish people ask you, when you speak what they do not wish to hear, "How do you know it is the truth, and not an error of your own?" We know the truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.”

“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”

“I meet the answering machine’s small, steady stare. “What do you do when God tells you no?” I ask. But it doesn’t answer me, so I undress for bed”