... we are all terribly alone no matter what people say.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

A man had to learn, it was his nature.

We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.

When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.

I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.

All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.