"Everything is contagious in baseball."

“We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.”

“Im the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. Thats the way my mother raised me.”

“Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written.”

Source : "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

“Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.”

“Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.”

“I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.”

“If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.”

“If you develop rules, never have more than ten.”