Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me.

There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.

One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him.

I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

To me, the mind seems to be spread out in the whole body - the senses are part of the brain. I guess they're not where the thinking is done.

it is forbidden to love where we are not loved