Then I started crying for it seemed to me then that life is nothing but people leaving.

The state of my nerves precludes any more active an existence.

The sociology of Washington, on the other hand, is not only more political but also more gullible, more cynical. It’s a city of half a million student council presidents, ready to adopt any opinion that advances their careers.

Simply to line up words one after another upon a page is to create some order where it did not exist, to give a recognizable shape to the chaos of our lives. Writing cannot bring our loved ones back, but it can sometimes fix them in our fleeting memories as they were in life, and it can always help us make it through the night.

And are we not all “mere guests” upon this whirling earth?

Government regulation on the local level is the problem.

Government regulation on the local level is the problem. I have been working on the local level very intensely for six months now. I have personally identified a slew of local government regulations that are causing the problem.

I'm hoping our guys throw strikes and not be so much in awe of who we're facing. I don't want them thinking about getting autographs in the middle of the game.

I kind of made my peace with it being gone.

They can have a really good barbecue experience without being on one of the teams.