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

Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.

In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.

For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football's place is to add a patina of character, a deference to the rules and a respect for authority.

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

Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

My best girl is dead.