I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.

Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.

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

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

For most of my life, when I've finished the book I'm writing, there've always been as many as two or three other novels waiting to be written next. And the decision driving which one of them it should be was never based on how long it had waited or how many accumulated pages of notes I had.

Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.

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