It's just like what I told Raff when I went out to talk to him in the ninth. The pressure was on them. We were up three runs - the pressure wasn't on us.

It's a relief. It takes the weight off the defense and lets us go out and relax. For a lot of us, this is our first postseason appearance, as far as a championship series goes, and you tend to tense up.

It's a momentum shift. I'm not saying I did anything great - I mean, it's just what we do - but it changed things. I think it maybe got some guys fired up.

Even in making objects, as soon as you start to get the feeling that some form of craft is coming into place, you realize that everything is wrong. Because craft is really just a fetish. It is wasted energy. It's about the object, some space which has nothing to do with the human.

My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.

Managers will tell people what to do, whereas leaders will inspire them to do it, and there are a few things that go into the ability to inspire.