Joe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old rules and dimensions of baseball no longer applied to him, and that the game had at last grown unfairly easy.

To grow old is to lose everything.

Joe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old rules and dimensions of baseball no longer applied to him, and that the game had at last grown unfairly easy.

We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining and whole.

Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.

Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.