American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy, jealousy, all that is malignant in human character is nourished by the system. Possession, money, property--on such corrupt standards as these do you people measure happiness and success.

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones.

People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.

For someone whose roots in America were strong but only inches deep, and who had no experience, such as a Catholic child might, of an awesome hierarchy that was real and felt, baseball was a kind of secular church that reached into every class and region of the nation and bound millions upon millions of us together in common concerns, loyalties, rituals, enthusiasms, and antagonisms. Baseball made me understand what patriotism was about, at its best.

This is what you know about someone you have to hate: he charges you with his crime and castigates himself in you.

Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid