"That’s the whole story of pitching. Keep your life and your pitching real simple, and you’ll get along."

286-game winner Robin Roberts quoted in John Thorn and John Holway The Pitcher

“The Epigrammatist: 'Mankind perishes. The world goes dark./ He racks his brains for a tart remark.'"

The last in a series of "Epigrams" in Chronicles magazine November 1988

"The traveller sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see."

G.K. Chesterton, quoted by Robert Moore-Jumonville in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 15 #1 (September 2011) 

"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber if he has common sense on the ground floor."

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", quoted in Daniel Boorstin Cleopatra's Nose

"Learn your lines and don’t trip over the furniture."

Spencer Tracy's advice to young actors, quoted in Jon Winokur Zen to Go

"I’m creative, but somehow I lack the talent to go with it."

 Lily Tomlin, Search for Signs of Intelligent Life, quoted in The New Republic Oct. 7, 1991

In my latest National Post column I dismiss various criticisms and call Prince Harry's engagement to Meghan Markle a good thing including the amazing progress in race relations it reflects.

"When you sweep the floor, just sweep; when you eat, just eat; when you walk, just walk."

"the pilgrim-poet Basho" quoted by Robert Sibley in Ottawa Citizen Nov. 19, 2000