Do we really know anybody? Who does not wear one face to hide another?

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.

Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well - there's another notch on my experience belt.

Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item.

I adapt to things quickly, including good things, which I wish I could shut off sometimes.

I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider.

It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author; usually only one.

My favorite songs change every year.

Sometimes it's a struggle to live in the moment.

'Warm Bodies' ended up becoming one of the most personal relatable things I've written.

I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.

The kind of stuff I usually read is a bit more on the literary side, like books that I think are influential in the sense that they're doing pulpy subject matter in a refined way. Like 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy; I loved that book.

It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.

Candlestick was built on the water. It should have been built under it.

I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on.

It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs.

It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.

Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.

You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.

Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.