But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.

Dave Matthews

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

Andrew Carnegie

Alack, there lies more peril in thine eyeThan twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,And I am proof against their enmity.

William Shakespeare

Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.

Jonathan Schattke

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

Jean Baudrillard

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

Archibald MacLeish

Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.

Conrad Black

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Babe Ruth

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Sparky Anderson

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

Albert Einstein

I love the sound of those engines.

Vanna Bonta