I fix what's broken - except in the heart.

There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.

We didn't starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

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

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.