It's odd how our fears, the ones we didn't know we had, alter our sight line and make us see things that never were. - Richard Ford

If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here and they're over, and that has to be enough.

...good counsel: generosity, longevity, acceptance, relinquishment, letting the world come to me — and, with these things to make a life.

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.