Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it read more

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

A little bit at which you persevere is better than a lot at which you are bored.

A little bit at which you persevere is better than a lot at which you are bored.

This is politics, raw and urgent,

This is politics, raw and urgent,

Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.

Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.

The thing about baseball is, it takes one pitch to change a game. He just got the bat head out. read more

The thing about baseball is, it takes one pitch to change a game. He just got the bat head out. Every pitcher in America's going to say, 'Darn it, that shouldn't have been hit.' But he hit my pitch.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.

. . . inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

. . . inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm.

You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.