In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.

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.

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.

Words motivate.

Our parents were a test tube and a turkey baster.

One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

The nations of the world, if they follow the Lord, will continue to be a blessing to His children so long as they trust and follow Him.

Gastronomy is the greatest form of therapy that anyone can be exposed to.

Don't get involved with anyone who doesn't respect his mother.

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

Never feel guilty. Don't hold yourself back by guilt or fear. No other species in the entire world deals with guilt. Guilt is a bizarre emotion that makes you feel bad about decisions that you make.

I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.