I had already concluded that not one of my writings was publishable, having myself analyzed the faults of my belletristic production.

Why are you so critical of baseball? ... something pure and noble like the American flag, motherhood and apple pie.

By nine o’clock that night the snow had begun to fall even harder. Brendon stood on the corner of 87ᵗʰ Street and Stony Island Avenue beneath a green canvas awning now cupcaked with a layer of white.

There is a class of horses called ‘resurrectionists’... and they either recover early form... or... become animated, when they were supposed to be gone altogether, with... life and vigour.