When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.

Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.

Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game

One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.

Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.