If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.
If you can survive disappointment, nothing can beat you
Here's how my brain works: It's stupidity, followed by self-hatred, and then further analysis.
I was raised by a hard-working single mother, so my first role model was a woman. My only caretaker was a woman, and I have three sisters, so my community was girls. I have two girls, and my dog is a girl. My dead dog was a girl. I don't know. I guess I've always keyed in on that perspective.
I used to like people more, but now I have children and that changes your life in a lot of ways. Like you spend time with people you never would have chosen to spend time with, not in a million years. I spend whole days with people, I'm like, "I never would have hung out with you. I didn't choose you. Our children chose each other based on no criteria by the way. They're the same size. They don't care who they make me hang out with. "
If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it.
Race doesn't mean what it used to in America anymore. It just doesn't. Obama's black, but he's not black the way people used to define that. Is black your experience or the color of your skin? My experience is as a Mexican immigrant, more so than someone like George Lopez. He's from California. But he'll be treated as an immigrant. I am an outsider. My abuelita, my grandmother, didn't speak English. My whole family on my dad's side is in Mexico. I won't ever be called that or treated that way, but it was my experience.
Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while.
About once a month or so, my daughter and I go out on what we call a Fancy Dinner Date, just the two of us.
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.
The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.