37 Quotes by Robert Coover

"No matter how much sunlight and fresh air she lets in, there’s always this dark little pocket of lingering night which she has to uncover."

"What we got is NOW, Huck, and now is forever. Until it ain’t. So, you can’t worry over nothing except putting off the end a your story as long as you can, and finishing it with a bang."

"Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn’t really say anything."

"American baseball, by luck, trial, and error, and since the famous playing rules council of 1889, had struck on an almost perfect balance between offense and defense, and it was that balance, in fact, that and the accountability – the beauty of the records system which found a place to keep forever each least action – that had led Henry to baseball as his final great project."

"Maybe it all went back to the days when games were decided, not by the best score in nine innings, but by the first team to score twenty-one runs."

"And so, finally, he’d found his way back to baseball. Nothing like it really. Not the actual game so much – to tell the truth, real baseball bored him – but rather the records, the statistics, the peculiar balances between individual and team, offense and defense, strategy and luck, accident and pattern, power and intelligence. And no other activity in the world had so precise and comprehensive a history, so specific an ethic, and at the same time, strange as it seemed, so much ultimate mystery."

"History my god. An incurable diarrhea of dead immortals."