"From an endless dream we have come. In an endless dream we are living. To an endless dream we shall return."

“Death was no less a miracle than birth.”

“I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!”

“The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.”

“There was a point at which I thought I'd never get the most valuable player, especially the years I played at Minnesota. We never won a pennant there, we were far away from the big media centers of Los Angeles and New York, and I wasn't a flashy power hitter but a guy who hit to spots, who bunted and stole bases.”

“Don't borrow trouble. The interest is too high.”

“Your personal power is not something that is going to reveal itself at some later date. Your power is a result of your decision to reveal it. You are powerful in whatever moment you choose to be....”

“When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.”

“The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God”