What seems to sell books is good word-of-mouth, not promotion tours. I'm too old to believe that media promotion of a book really matters. What matters is how it will look 100 years from now, not how many copies are sold.

There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.

I would rather be seated between any two women than any two men at a dinner party.

Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

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.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.