You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

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

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

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.