John Leonard Quotes
In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the same of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.
To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms.
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I had to rescue was myself.
