Burn brightly without burning out.

The greatest gap in life is the one between knowing and doing.

Exaggeration is the melodramatic child of truth.

It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.

You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.

Write as if your parents are dead.

Many Americans follow pro basketball from November through June, for reasons that I found unexplainable, other than the fact that they were overly fascinated with soaring armpits.

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

He was in uniform, gun at his hip, expression dialed to Dirty Harry, and just looking at him had something pinging low in Chloe’s belly.

Dallas Green is basically Canadian royalty.

I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail!

Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.