I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young.

I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place I would rather be.

Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.

The best defense against partisanship is expertise.

The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they're basically overlooked.

Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around.

What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game.

Baseball’s absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all.

I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books than bad ballgames, or maybe it was the other way around. I can't remember.

Those who live by the wall must die by the wall.

If you despise increase, you are a strange personality in the society

We pretended she'd only gotten lost in the colors of fall.Piper

I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.

Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.

The fact is, almost everything Hillary Clinton's done in foreign policy has been a mistake and it's been a disaster.

You think I was born rich? I've worked really hard. You have no idea.

A comprehended god is no god.

The first time I lived in L.A. I was too young. I really wanted to be back home in Vancouver.

The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.

I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.