The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new. Even Matisse painted some of his Fauvist pictures in anxiety. Maybe that helped him to simplify. Character, discipline, negative capability count. Write, complete, revise. If it doesn't work, begin something else.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.