One must be as clear as one's natural reticence allows one to be.

I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.

Revision is its own reward.

Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.

There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.

Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.