Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.

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.

It just be life, that's all. Ain't nothin' happened to you, ain't happened to most women whether they care to admit it or not. You strong, Babygirl. You a woman. You gotta be.

I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

Your worst mistakes is actually your best advice.

You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.

We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.

Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise.

Live on in your blessings, your destiny's been won. But ours calls us on from one ordeal to the next.