I'm an instant star, just add water.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

Fame itself... doesn't really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

Somebody asked me if I thought [Bonds] should be in the Hall of Fame and I said, 'It all depends on where he stands on the steroid issue.' They said that I said he shouldn't be in there. He probably should be. I mean, he's a hell of a player. I like Barry. I've known Barry for a long time. My thing is that I said Bud needs to step up and do his job and all that. I said that a week or so ago. Now all of the sudden, he's doing that. Everything that I said about him, he's starting to do.

The irony of his fame now really is that he was one of the least significant rulers.