Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

My best girl is dead.

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.

Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.