Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy.

Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.

Today's game is always different from yesterday's game.

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.

Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world.

Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.

All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

Today we fight. Tomorrow we fight. The day after, we fight. And if this disease plans on whipping us, it better bring a lunch, 'cause it's gonna have a long day doing it.

I'm not taken and you needn't worry yourself about sharing me because I'm not asking you to. -Aria Cason

Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

I think a good actor will always know the character better than anybody.

In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life

Your nervous system has to become collectively conscious.

The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.