The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.

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.

Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go.

I have seen players sent off for far worse offences than that.

Tell me, ye wingèd winds That round my pathway roar, Know ye not some spot Where mortals weep no more?

The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I dive in and plunge too far.

Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.

The facts may tell you one thing. But, God is not limited by the facts. Choose faith in spite of the facts.

Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.

I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that.

I feel affluent or not according to what part of town I am in.

A drunkard cannot plead his case.