If you're one of the top one or two in the league, why should age be a question? It's different read more

If you're one of the top one or two in the league, why should age be a question? It's different if he's taking snaps and his rheumatism is acting up, you know what I mean?

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

This is the highest tribute we can pay him, our appreciation for his superlative writing, his incomparable writing. Quite frankly, read more

This is the highest tribute we can pay him, our appreciation for his superlative writing, his incomparable writing. Quite frankly, I've never experienced writing like this before, except for 'Fences,' something that addresses me as an individual, addresses me as a black man and addresses the history of the African-American culture and the African-American experience in this country.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight read more

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

If you are a 24-year-old man, you believe that old age begins about 55 [while] if you are a 62-year-old read more

If you are a 24-year-old man, you believe that old age begins about 55 [while] if you are a 62-year-old woman, you think youth doesn't end until 57.

It's weird that people get rewarded for being the millionth fan, or visitor, and the first one gets nothing. Thank read more

It's weird that people get rewarded for being the millionth fan, or visitor, and the first one gets nothing. Thank you for not appreciating my work before 999,999 people, here's a gift.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

They plainly saw the writing on the wall. They saw that the way they [crafted] the settlement would not withstand read more

They plainly saw the writing on the wall. They saw that the way they [crafted] the settlement would not withstand the court's review. So they retreated, making it a private handshake deal between the two of them. As a result, it won't be enforceable in the future.

That would make this particularly disheartening.

That would make this particularly disheartening.