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

Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.

I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are.

It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy.

My best girl is dead.

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

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