What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.

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

As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.

Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.

I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.