[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.
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.
Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years, but if someone asked my occupation, I'd say writer, even if I'd never sold a word. Writers write. Other people talk.
The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.
Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.