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.

Can build plane... Delivery about three months.

Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds.

You know how, when you fly from coast to coast on a really clear day, looking down from many miles up, you can see the little baseball diamonds everywhere? And every time I see a baseball diamond my heart goes out to it. And I think somewhere down there- I don't see any houses, I can hardly see any roads- but I know that people down there are playing the game we all love.

For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.

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.