It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy.

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.

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.

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

The smallest a family can be is two members, and that was Jules and me.

Life is easier lived when lived for others.

Practicing regular, mindful breathing can be calming and energizing and can even help with stress-related health problems ranging from panic attacks to digestive disorders.

Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more.

Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

There's nothing like a nice piece of hickory.

We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either.

Like the color black, business mixed with anything turns to business.

Scott Peterson was a pathological liar to me - nothing he said was the truth.