Don't be sharp or flat; just be natural.

Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.

I've always been a slave to my heart.

To be successful, one must take chances.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.

Helping someone is what life is all about.

You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.

The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?"

The truth is hidden in books.

Maybe if I had gone on like that I could have stopped myself in time. Maybe at that point I still had it in me to come through.

Where are they, the American fiction writers whose works are interested in the question “What do these people have to do with us?” and “What are we doing out there in the world?

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

Micro: When his mind detached from his body he saw the murderer stab him repeatedly. Later, he told the detective - who retired. He blamed stress.

Your true intentions is a reflection of your character.

Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned.

There is a place of imagination, and it is entirely real.

The single most important route of success is persistence - never, ever give up!