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.

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.

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.

Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

Blessed influence of one truly loving soul on another!

I'm not going to change the world. You're not going to change the world. But we can help - we can all help.

We are sparks that must glow as brightly as possible.

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

Impossible mountains are climbed by those who have the self confidence that comes from truly being loved.

Those opportunities to play in championship games are few and far between

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

It Was Once Suggested to Me that, as an Antidote to Crying, I Put My Head in a Paper Bag.

An actor has many lives and many people within him. I know there are lots of people inside me. No one ever said I'm dull.