Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.
The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.
Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.
He bats like a lightning rod.
Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.
[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.