Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.

Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.

The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too.

Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.

If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.

When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.

I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.