But Little League can be a great experience for kids, as long as they want to play--and don't play to bring their parents glory.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

You and Sven and Sven. You're my family. I like you and you like me and we all helped each other back there. So isn't that family?

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

I've been choking to death for years. By now this should be easy.

Best fishing in troubled waters.

The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions- 'it wasn't Jezebels fault, Dad.'

Suffolk has something more than the coziness of Kent and Surrey. There is a hint of wildness in its tamed beauty, and the tang of the North Sea is never far away.

To make people laugh was almost a sickness with me.

Why are you obsessed with fighting? Stick to fishing from now on!

If you believe something, you can have a morality that means something as well. You can feel recognized as an individual within the universe; it can give meaning to who you are.