They gave each other a smile with a future in it.
The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.
The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.
He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.
How can you write if you can't cry?
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.