I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.

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.

There is no land like the land of your childhood.

I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.

Reflection increases the vigor of the mind, as exercise does the strength of the body.

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

Whether the task is writing, design, or hanging a picture straight, it is obvious that we do our best work when healthy, rested, refreshed, alert, and eager to do the job for its own sake.

Love God, Embrace beauty, Live life to the fullest.

Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.

Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.

A child playing air guitar plays no wrong notes

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.