Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and sour-faced reporters that crowd around the dugouts can quite smother the exhilarating spaciousness and grace of this impudently relaxed sport, a game of innumerable potential redemptions and curious disappointments.

Faith is not so much a binary pole as a quantum state, which tends to indeterminacy when closely examined.

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us.

Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.

The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when you have footnotes.

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

The educational aspect of art shows has become overbearing: some of exhibits can leave you bleary from trying to read the walls. Presumably a piece of art is timeless and it can say something to us. You are taking away the right of art to talk for itself.