Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.

Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions.

[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.

Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.

Until Color TV came along, BW TV was too muddy to be enjoyable.

It is hard to compare the eras, but Joe Jackson and Ty Cobb from the past, Sandy Koufax and Roger Clements from the present.

My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket.