It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson – the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man. - John Updike

There was a beauty here bigger than the hurtling beauty of basketball, a beauty refined from country pastures, a game of solitariness, of waiting, waiting for the pitcher to complete his gaze toward first base and throw his lightning, a game whose very taste, of spit and dust and grass and sweat and leather and sun, was America.

[Harry to Janice, about the financial situation] "...You're in real trouble."

Women: you never know which side they want to dance on.