It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.

Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.

He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.

I shouldn’t have gone out so far, fish, ” he said. “Neither for you nor for me. I’m sorry, fish.

The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish.

Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

Only God and His angels can hear our hearts duet.

I suppose home is, for me, more of a state of mind. It's really more of about being where I want to be with people I care about.

The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

Jody Houser, who writes Mother Panic, has this noir-ish superhero style. She's very adaptable.

After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.