First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.