In a situation like that, you like to redeem yourself. Nobody likes to get beat around like that. It's definitely a matter of pride, and we'll have to show a lot of character.

We've been trying to catch them for a long time. We got close, then slid back and fell behind Manchester, too. But now we're ready to go and want to tie for first place and keep going the way we've been going to set us up for the playoffs.

Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime.

You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.

I think, with age, you learn that it comes in bursts and you've got no control over it. I'm not one of those people who says, 'I've got to write a song every day.' I just store up ideas, and really I have to wait until it finds me; I know when I'm ready to write. It used to frustrate me, but it doesn't any more. It's just how it is.

Browsing for books with a mouse and screen is not nearly as joyful an act as wandering the stacks and getting lost in the labyrinthine corridors of knowledge. The best libraries are places of imagination, education and community. The best libraries have mystery to them.