W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe Quotes

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.

Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.[Eddie Scissons]

I'm not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you.

Serenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it.

I wonder if there are soft-spoken voices who deliver assignments to all of us in various times ... It is nice to think I have company-that others dance to the muted music I hear.

I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head.