My best girl is dead.

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.

Save time, worry about everything all at once!

Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.

Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.

Everything is evil that humans can't control or conquer

Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came.

I love being a mom. That's the best job I've ever had. All the other stuff I love the same, but being a mom trumps all of it.

I love comedy. If I could be a comedian - well, I probably would not take that job because it seems really hard, but I wish I could be.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain

Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination.

The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud the horizon of tomorrow, but act as a spur to greater effort.