Add little to little and there will be a big pile.
In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.
It was a pretty fierce rivalry. I'm just speaking for myself, but I think it was general through the clubs. We didn't like them, and they didn't like us.
There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing baseball either. It was just a series of things that went on.
I went into the Air Corps from 1943 through 1945.
Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals
What though I cannot meet my bills? What though I suffer toothache's ills? What though I swallow countless pills?
How many are silenced, because in order to get to their art they would have to scream?
When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.