Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'