“You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. This is a team for the cab driver who gets held up and the guy who loses out on a promotion because he didn't maneuver himself to lunch with the boss enough. It is the team for every guy who has to get out of bed in the morning and go to work for short money on a job he does not like. And it is the team for every woman who looks up ten years later and sees her husband eating dinner in a t-shirt and wonders how the hell she ever let this guy talk her into getting married. The Yankees? Who does well enough to root for them, Laurence Rockefeller?”
― Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?: The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets' First Year
― Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?: The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets' First Year
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”
― The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
― The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
“Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!”
― Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
― Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
“I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.”
― Goodbye to Berlin
― Goodbye to Berlin
“I seek the eternal and the ephemeral.”
― Life: A User's Manual
― Life: A User's Manual
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