Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.

Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.

Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.