I remember the Chillicothe ballplayers grappling the Long Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And the shoulders of the Chillicothe players were a red smoke against the sundown and the shoulders of the Rock Island players were a yellow smoke against the sundown. And the umpire's voice was hoarse calling balls and strikes and outs and the umpire's throat fought in the dust for a song.

The impact of television on our culture is just indescribable.

Now is the time. It is never too late to start something.

Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away?

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.