"With nothing to risk, love can't exist."

“If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.”

Source : Jim Bouton (1970). “Ball four: my life and hard times throwing the knuckleball in the Big Leagues”, Dell Pub Co

“In the end, forever, you and I will be in Heaven or Hell. Period.”

“That's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table, all talking about how nervous they were, about the lines, and so forth. No matter how big you get, you still have the same kinds of anxieties and so forth.”

“Every child should have a chance to feel special.”

“[On Ronald Reagan:] Jane Wyman seemed more upset with her husband's obsession with politics than I. I tried to make her laugh. 'He'll outgrow it,' I told her. To her it wasn't funny.”

“My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.”

“That's his definition of mercy. This is the year of the Mercy Jubilee of the pope. I know that he's against abortion, but he talks about Christ's emphasis on mercy instead of his emphasis on judgment. He talks about the lack of Christian charity and the pride that are afloat in our world these days in terms of making moral judgments on other people. That's really it for Willie. He's really a missionary.”

Source : Source: classic.esquire.com

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