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

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.

The only thing between you and success is your thinking. Defeatist thoughts are the mother of inaction.

I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.

Every man must do two things alone he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Before you can win the fight, You’ve got to be in the fight.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think.

Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

When the ego dies, the soul awakes.

When I did The Natural that album was done from the perspective of a kid from Queens that was 19-20 years old who doesn't know that much about the industry.

All of a sudden, people are going to decide they want to go micro, everything's smaller.