“Every sport pretends to be literature. . .”

“In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the first place: the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby.”

“New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.”

“Curiosity…endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.”

“Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline.”

“...the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was not necessarily the edge of the precipice: it could be the bottom of the valley, the beginning of the long climb up the far slope, and when a man had once begun that climb he never looked back to that other side.”

“All of us are better when we're loved.”