"I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's."
"She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy.I do have a knack for finding great women."
"I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I had become had to die."
"He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and you'd better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot heard round the world. My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don't."
"Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape."