Love Isn’t A Thing, After

If Sportswriting Teaches You Anything, And There Is Much Truth To It As Well As Plenty Of Lies, It Is That For Your Life To Be Worth Anything You Must Sooner Or Later Face The Possibility Of Terrible, Searing Regret. Though You Must Also Manage To Avoid It Or Your Life Will Be Ruined.

Finally I Do Like Best Of All Stories Whose Necessity Is In The Implied Recognition That Someplace Out There There Exists An Urgency-a Chaos-, An Insanity, A Misrule Of Some Dire Sort Which Can End Life As We Know It But For The Fact That This Very Story Is Written, This Order Found, This Style Determined, The Worst Averted, And We Are Beneficiaries Of That Order By Being Readers

You Can't Write ... On The Strength Of Influence. You Can Only Write A Good Story Or A Good Novel By Yourself.

Married Life Requires Shared Mystery Even When All The Facts Are Known.

The National Rifle Association Is A Domestic Terrorist Organization That Tacitly Supports The Killing Of Children More Than It Supports Reasoned Gun Legislation.