It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.

Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.

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

Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.

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.

What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.