Old Age Isn't A Battle; Old Age

For Someone Whose Roots In America Were Strong But Only Inches Deep, And Who Had No Experience, Such As A Catholic Child Might, Of An Awesome Hierarchy That Was Real And Felt, Baseball Was A Kind Of Secular Church That Reached Into Every Class And Region Of The Nation And Bound Millions Upon Millions Of Us Together In Common Concerns, Loyalties, Rituals, Enthusiasms, And Antagonisms. Baseball Made Me Understand What Patriotism Was About, At Its Best.

Everything Dictated Silence And Self-control But I Couldn't Restrain Myself And Spoke My Mind.

You Can't Write Good Satirical Fiction In America Because Reality Will Quickly Outdo Anything You Might Invent.

Literature Got Me Into This Mess And Literature Is Going To Have To Get Me Out Of It.

Memories Of The Past Are Not Memories Of Facts But Memories Of Your Imaginings Of The Facts.