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.

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.

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.

Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

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.

Never test your friends, You will be ashamed or disappointed.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

You can change your spouse, your friends but never your club.

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.

I intend to stay on her like hair on soap.

I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

Everyone should have cheat days or days off. You need to balance the unhealthy with the healthy.

I didn't have much of a life in crime as a graffiti writer.

I guess country music works better in supermarkets.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.