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.

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.

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.

Until quite recently women's histories were largely overlooked but in the wake of feminism there has been increasing interest in retrieving them.

You have to live the way you are going to end up.

If there is one thing worse than self-pity, it was other people's pity.

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.

And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

I have no worries myself, nor do I exude or possess within my living stratus any reason why someone should worry [on] my behalf.

Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.

I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.

A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.