When you are writing a character, what the character says is obviously crucial. But what the character doesn't say is absolutely as important as his words.
Frederick BuschBaseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.
Frederick BuschWhat to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.
Frederick BuschWe are herding the young in that direction so that they are not sitting still and contemplating, Goddamn it, a page of exquisite prose by Charles Dickens, which is filled with rage about poverty and the need of a household to survive. That's not in the table for consideration now. And people don't understand that beautiful rage of Dickens because they don't share it. They haven't got time to worry about an oppressed culture, a subclass.
Frederick Busch