New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?
I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.
I want to thank all my teammates who scored so many runs and Joe DiMaggio, who ran down so many of my mistakes.
I don't want to throw him nothing. Maybe he'll just get tired of waiting and leave.
He's in a rut. Gehringer goes two for five on opening day and stays that way all season.
When I first signed with the Yankees, the regulars wouldn't talk to you until you were with the team three or four years. Nowadays the rookies get $100,000 to sign and they don't talk to the regulars.
It's better to be lucky than good.
It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.
No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone.
This must be a simply enormous wardrobe!
If I had a vision of the perfect psychedelic drug and knew its structure, I'd make it. That's why I have a laboratory out there - to make things that haven't been made before.