If there are bleachers in heaven and a warm sun, that's where you'll find Bill Veeck.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.