The greatest kindness would put a bullet in his bright eye.

We learned how to love each other by loving together good things wholly outside each other.

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.

Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.

If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.

Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds.

Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

You think that their dying is the worst thing that could happen. Then they stay dead.

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.

To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we succeed we will never know it

Achieving your goal should always be of secondary importance. Your focus should be on becoming the kind of person deserving of the goal.

We are all equal. The unlike of choices is what distinguishes us from each other.

Survival justifies any means.

Don't tell those coming in the final result of that fantastic match, but let's just have another look at Italy's winning goalo.

...More than almost any current book, DTU will wake the reader from his dogmatic slumbers. It is eminently readable, challenging, and provocative.

If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to form a proper queue?

Look, some people talk about their personal lives a lot; I try not to, unless it's more of a generality.

Sweetie, she-warriors don"t scream. We wow our men with a look, tame them with a smile.

Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.

I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.