“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.”

“popular culture is where we go to talk to and agree with one another; to simplify ourselves; to find our herd. Its like going to the Automat to buy an emotion. The thrills are cheap and the payoffs...”

“In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the same of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.”

“To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms.”

“Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?”

“It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I had to rescue was myself.”

“Some people think football [soccer] is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.”

“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”

“Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.”

“Sometimes a strikeout means that the sluggers girlfriend just ran off with the UPS driver. Sometimes a muffed ground ball means that the shortstops baby daughter has a pain in her head that wont go...”

“Youre not going to always hit a home run in life. Youre going to strike out! Youre going to walk to the dugout of life, frustrated, while spectators chirp your name in judgment. Theyre afraid to ev...”

“He has the body of a professional athlete, chiseled to perfection in all the right places.”

“Guess our sex is hot, we start fires.”

“I won't sugarcoat shit. You're tiptoeing on the line between batshit crazy and sane.”

“Payback's a bitch, but thankfully those tissues are only full of snot and tears instead of dead little sperms.”