One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application.

It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.

When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared; trouble was split. You had an ally.

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

A cat doesn't linger over making it's desires felt.

Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.

Everything a cat is and does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing, attractive and an enchantment.