Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a gust of wind.

Without cunning, there is no innovation. Without ambition, there is no accomplishment.

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.

Then I realized that most of the world's problems stemmed from macho dickheadism, and if I cold defeat that I could save the world.

The mystery of ministry is that we have been chosen to make our own limited and very conditional love the gateway for the unlimited and unconditional love of God.

This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, Christmas and the Fourth of July.

Only in the Fall of 1924 did [Joseph] Stalin discover that it is especially Russia, as distinguished from other countries, which can by its own forces build up a socialist society.

Faith is not sure, if you cannot turn love to quarrel; may my enemies obtain a mild mistress.