“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.”

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

“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 Francisco of the East”

“Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.”