Aggression, the writer's main source of energy.

Basketball teams, after the perfunctory lay-up drill, fall into the crowded isolation and personal style of 10 city kids shooting at the same basket or playing one-on-one.

The best is good enough for me.

A professional football team warms up grimly and disparately, like an army on maneuvers: the ground troops here, the tanks there, the artillery and air force over there.

Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, it's facing the death you know is coming.

The life-changing encounters that John Quincy Adams made as an adolescent on his own in Stockholm began with a friendship he struck up at a bookstore.

If you fight for yourself, you have awakened your conscience, but if you fight for people you will awaken a nation.

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

'Option B' draws not just on my story but on the research and stories of many people overcoming all kinds of adversity. No one should have to go through challenges and trauma alone.

I get nervous when I fly; I'm used to walking with my feet.

If Chelsea are naive and pure then I'm Little Red Riding Hood.

Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[...]'Power corrupts' is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide to action.

Patience is the First Lesson.

Nothing in life is ritual.