Charity you can give even when you haven't got.

In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.

You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.

A man had to learn, it was his nature.

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

Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.