Being a White Sox fan meant measuring victory in terms of defeat. A 6-5 defeat was a good day. A big rally was Wally Moses doubling down the right- f…

- Jean Shepherd

The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.

- Jean Shepherd

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves.…

- Jean Shepherd

Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man.

- Jean Shepherd

A man today never feels so alive as when he is hurtling from one point to another on the azimuth.

- Jean Shepherd

There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.

- Jean Shepherd

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

- Jean Shepherd

Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.

- Jean Shepherd

Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty.

- Jean Shepherd