"And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox."

“Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.”

Source : Willie Mays, Charles Einstein (1955). “Born to play ball”

“When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”

Source : 'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 6, l. [187]

“Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you.”

“I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

“A barrier is of ideas, not of things.”

“Manners,[...] are severly underappreciated in my opinion". "Oh?" Where practiced well, they remove the probability that someone in my position will be forced to go through the effort of killing someone in yours. Belive that on occasion that much death can become tedious.”

“Next to that kid, we all look like onions.”

“. . . it's not just the people we love, but the people we let love us back who show us how high we can really soar.”

Source : Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.261, Penguin