As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.
I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.
[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
What do I believe in? Belief means faith, and there's only one damned thing in the world I have any faith in. That's the idea of American democracy, because it seems to me so obvious that that's the only sensible way to run human affairs.