It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the YankeeStadium of ancient times.

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.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment.

Steroids are used in all sports.

So you know, I think that the federal government, the Democrats, and President Obama are selling a lot of hope and change, but no delivery of any of those promises.

I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.

Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself.

Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.

I'm not massively into computers. I'm a fan of Macs because they're more user friendly, so I'm used to using them.

We live in a new time and a new place, and people have to begin to be ready for the kind of oversight that the public is demanding.

It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.