One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.

... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.