"A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle."

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"I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram."

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"He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him."

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"And down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandalled feet, Crept like a frightened girl."

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"I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works."

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"Tell me, when you are alone with him [Max Beerbohm] Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask?"

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"We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language."

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"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."

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"A poet can survive everything but a misprint."

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"All art is immoral."

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"All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction."

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"She is not a subject."

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"[On Bernard Shaw] An excellent man: he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him."

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"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."

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"For to disagree with three-fourths of the British public on all points is one of the first elements of sanity, one of the deepest consolations in all moments of spiritual doubt."

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"I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lip."

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"Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence."

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"Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime."

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"And he related also, with much gusto, how in a country-house he had told his host one evening that he had spent the day in hard literary work, and that, when asked what he had done, he had said, "I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning and took out a comma." "And in the afternoon?" "In the afternoon–well, I put it back again."

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"People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately."

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"Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so."

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"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."

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"He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives."

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"Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event."

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"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."

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"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring."

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"Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood."

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"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."

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"And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

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"At the beginning of the season he told me he wanted more homers and more runs batted in. He even named the figures: 25 homers and 115 RBIs. I could have hit more homers before if I wanted to, but I never cared about hitting them. I think a .350 batting average does the same good for a team as 25 homers and 100 runs batted in. But of course, if Walker wants more homers, it's okay with me."

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"I dedicate this hit to the fans in Pittsburgh. They have been wonderful. And to the people back in Puerto Rico, but especially to the fellow who pushed me to play baseball, Roberto Marin. He made me play. He carried me around looking for the man to sign me. [...] I dedicate that hit to the person I owe most to in professional baseball, Roberto Marin."

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"Roberto's nickname of "Momen" comes from his cousin "For no reason."

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"What I said was "Here, look at all these marks I got on my body from different injuries. Nobody ever writes anything about these, but they always write about Mickey Mantle’s injuries." I wasn’t saying anything against Mickey Mantle. I respect Mickey Mantle and I know what a great ballplayer he was."

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"I'm a better fielder than anyone you can name. I have great respect for Mays, but I can go get the ball like Willie and I have a better arm."

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"I would have to say myself, but it would not look good for me to say it. I just have confidence I am the best because I believe in myself. If I had to pick another player, it would be Hank Aaron. He does everything so well."

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"Quien Soy? (Who Am I?)I am a small point in the eye of the full moon. I only need one ray of the sun to warm my face. I need only one breeze from the Alisios to refresh my soul. What else can I ask if I know that my sons love really love me?."

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"Everybody, they say Roberto just swings the bat and hits the ball. I work hard. No one works harder than I do. People think things come easy to me. They don't."

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"You know, when the season is over a lot of guys go home and eat peanuts and drink beer and they show up in spring training with a big belly. I will go home and start working on my body right away. My right shoulder is not the way it is supposed to be. I'm not going to wait until spring training and hope it is all right. I will work on it when I get home."

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"You know, Nellie, when I was young I would run on fly balls hit to the outfield. I'd go around second base and I suddenly realize the ball is going to be caught. Sometimes I would run across the infield and never re-touch second base. Sometimes the umpires wouldn't notice if the players wouldn't. I didn't know how to run the bases well the first couple of years."

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"I didn't like the trade. Santurce is close to my home town and I like the fans there. They good to me and cheer me all the time. I may not go back. I may work in Pittsburgh."

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"The first hero that I have … I would say was Monte Irvin, when I was a kid. And I used to watch Monte Irvin play when I was a kid – I idolized him. I used to wait in front of the ballpark just for him to pass by so I could see him."

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"I hear people say I swing at bad pitches. What is a bad pitch? If I can hit it, it's not a bad pitch."

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"I learned the right way to live from my parents. I never heard any hate in my house. I never heard my father say a mean word to my mother, or my mother to my father, either. During the war, when food was hard to get, my parents fed their children first and they ate what was left. They always thought of us."

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"I was mad last year. I played as well as anyone else on our team and I didn't receive one vote for MVP. Don't get me wrong; I didn't say I was the best last year or that I should have won the MVP award. But nobody seemed to care about me. But you win the batting title yourself. They can't take that away from you."

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"Once upon a time I never believed I could get tired of baseball. I played baseball from morning to night. But today it isn't as it once was. I just never seem to get enough rest. And if I can't play at my best all the time, why play?"

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"I really don't know if I cried. If I did, it was tears not of pain, but of the sentiments my people are made of."

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"First base is not for me. I think a man shortens his career there instead of prolonging it. I keep my legs in good shape by running back and forth from the outfield to the dugout."

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"You could have put salt and pepper on me and fried me out in right field."

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"In 1956 I was doing good until I hurt my back. Since then I step to the side with my left foot faster so I don't have to twist my body so much."

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"They think it is an act. When I said I had back trouble, they call me Mama’s Boy. Goldbrick. When my elbow was swollen as big as a softball, they say it was in my head. If I am sick, I do not deny. If my back is hurting me and I am forced to punch at the ball with no power, I tell the truth. I tell them I am hurting."

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