Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.

First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it.... The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.

A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.