I Don't Have Time To Read Nonfiction.

Other People Get Into Occupations By Accident Or Design; But Writers Are Born. I Could Work At Selling Motels, Or Slopping Hogs, For Fifty Years, But If Someone Asked My Occupation, I'd Say Writer, Even If I'd Never Sold A Word. Writers Write. Other People Talk.

America Has Been Erased Like A Blackboard, Only To Be Rebuilt And Then Erased Again. But Baseball Has Marked Time While America Has Rolled By Like A Procession Of Steamrollers.

Syzygy, Inexorable, Pancreatic, Phantasmagoria - Anyone Who Can Use Those Four Words In One Sentence Will Never Have To Do Manual Labor.

I Knew How To Read Box Scores And Who The Baseball Heroes Were Before I Had Ever Seen Or Even Heard Much Of A Game.

At One Time I'd Been To Every Park Except Baltimore And Houston, But Can't Even Keep Track Of Who Plays Where These Days.