Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.

It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.

Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?

My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!

(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action

Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.

The object of war is to survive it.