“I hate gay people, so I let it be known. I don’t like gay people and I don’t like to be around gay people. I am homophobic. I don’t like it. It shouldn’t be in the world or in the United States. ... I wouldn’t want [a gay teammate]. I would really distance myself from him because I don’t think that is right. I don’t think he should be in the locker room while we are in the locker room. ... If you have 12 other ballplayers in your locker room that’s upset and can’t concentrate and always worried about him in the locker room or on the court or whatever, it’s going to be hard for your teammates to win and accept him as a teammate.”

“I hope I’m heading in the direction of being a good old gay person! I think it means being the best version of 62 I can be, not lamenting that I’m not 35. There is some wisdom that comes with age if you’ve been listening at all to the universe.”

“For the last six years we’ve been told that our mounting debts don’t matter, we’ve been told that the anxiety Americans feel about rising health care costs and stagnant wages are an illusion, we’ve been told that climate change is a hoax, and that tough talk and an ill-conceived war can replace diplomacy and strategy and foresight. And when all else fails, when Katrina happens, or the death toll in Iraq mounts, we’ve been told that our crises are somebody else’s fault. We’re distracted from our real failures, and told to blame the other party or gay people or immigrants.”