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

Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.

This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.

There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.

It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.