The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.
“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”
“Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.”