I acknowledge the Furies. I believe in them. I have heard the disastrous beating of their wings.
I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.
The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.
Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.
Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life.
The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.
I just reared back and let them go.
There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them. And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It's hard to charge admission without a gate.
I don't believe in anything, Mother," I said. "You told Armand long ago that you believe you'll find answers in the great jungles and forests; that the stars will finally reveal a vast truth. But I don't believe in anything. And that makes me stronger than you think
For the first time in our lives, I’m somewhere she can’t find, and I don’t have the map to give her that leads to me.
The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.