The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
Nationality isn't soul.
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.