But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

I'm just kind of really interested in athletes as artists of a pretty serious variety and people who devote themselves to what they do in a really incredible way.

You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht.

It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention.

It's very hard right now to be a pro sports fan. The economics of this stuff is abysmal.

... people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering.

I play American football every Saturday, which I find calming.

Most writers, most books, you have no idea whether it was a dollar or a million dollars.

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

Only love drives out hate because its only light that can conquer darkness

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Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start

Every woman deserves a man to ruin her lipstick, not her mascara

The more kind of head trippy sci-fi. I always like that. I was a big 'Twilight Zone' freak.

'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine.

My motto is, 'When in doubt, shoot the ball'.

How good you and I get at repenting will determine how good life is.

Don't give a speech. Put on a show.

Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.