I Was Here On Earth

To Be An American And Unable To Play Baseball Is Comparable To Being A Polynesian And Unable To Swim.

It Was A Splendid Summer Morning And It Seemed As If Nothing Could Go Wrong.

I Have Always Been The Lover - Never The Beloved - And I Have Spent Much Of My Life Waiting For Trains, Planes, Boats, Footsteps, Doorbells, Letters, Telephones, Snow, Rain, Thunder.

There Is A Terrible Sameness To The Euphoria Of Alcohol And The Euphoria Of Metaphor.

For Me A Page Of Good Prose Is Where One Hears The Rain. A Page Of Good Prose Is When One Hears The Noise Of Battle.... A Page Of Good Prose Seems To Me The Most Serious Dialogue That Well-informed And Intelligent Men And Women Carry On Today In Their Endeavor To Make Sure That The Fires Of This Planet Burn Peaceably.