“Retirement is purgatory for the former sports star. The world outside organized sports is unforgiving.”

“Only World War II, which mobilized 10 million draftees, could by any stretch of the imagination be called a people's war.”

“New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities - in its self-congratulation a kind of San Fr...”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”