“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.”

“We’d recorded Black Sabbath in one day. Sabotage took about four thousand years.”

“A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first?”

“The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.”

“Our course heavenward is like the plan of the zealous pilgrim of old, who for every three steps forward, took one backward.”

“Why honey, don't you want to get dressed?"My mother took care never to tell me to do anything. She would only reason with me sweetly, like one intelligent, mature person with another. It's almost three in the afternoon." I'm writing a novel," I said. "I haven't got time to change into this and change into that.”