Don't you see, if when we die there's nothing, all your sun and fields and what not are all, ah, horror? It's just an ocean of horror.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

What you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more.

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.

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.