There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man—with human flesh.

A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team&#39;s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp? Why, I would die of course. Literally shit myself lifeless.