Quotes
Things were changing fast by that time, women were beginning to come to the ball parks. We had to stop cussing.
There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.
In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.
I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars.
I never have been sick. I don't even know what it means to be sick. I hear other players say they have a cold. I just don't know what it would feel like to have a cold - I never had one.
I don't want my picture in any cigarettes, but I also don't want you to lose the ten dollars, so I'm enclosing my check for that sum.
When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.
The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.
All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.
A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?
Success is relevant to coping with obstacles... but no problem is ever solved by those, who, when they fail, look for someone to blame instead of something to do.
In France, I learned about wine and cheese.
I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
I think Tunnel reflects my own discomfort at being in a tunnel. But I made it fun.
I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.
I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.
I had a friend at a paperback publishing house. I like mystery stories so I thought I could sell this kind of prose.
I always liked spy stories.