It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

He tried to imagine the sound of the color red.

Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.

For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.

Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.

More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark.

The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.

This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.

The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia

I honestly couldn’t picture my future without picturing her.There was a time I knew that at any moment

Life is a game, and it's much more fun if you play it as your own game, so stay light and loose and relaxed.

We all just keep moving, September. We keep moving until we stop.

I like what is in the work -- the chance to find yourself.

I have arrived, and the spotlight is on me, honey!

I can say that I don't have a lot of leisure time, just sitting around doing absolutely nothing, but that's okay.

There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.

"Government," says Swift, "is a plain thing, and fitted to the capacity of many heads."

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.