baseball

book

future

old friend

rich

television

is a game of cumulative tension; football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

is a thing whereby those we love, love us back.

The books we love, love us back. In gratitude, we should promise not to cheat on them not to pretend we're better than they are... not to use them as target practice. . . We are reading for our lives, not performing like seals for some fresh fish. (John Leonard, critic)

is always succeeding in creating an appropriate past.

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

is not easy to come by --- it takes a long time to grow an old friend.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

is different from you and me in that they have more credit.

The rich are different from you and me. They have more credit.

John LeonardThinkers

John Leonard