When I played ball, I didnt play for fun. . . . Its no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. Its a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest. – Ty Cobb
The hoary joke in the literary world, based on Dreams From My Father, was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer. – James Fallows
