Dyan Favre, Brett's nephew, is also a gem. Not just a favorite person from the book - a favorite person, period. I actually wound up writing this about him. Simply a good, righteous man.

I know people my age (early 40s) who insist upon only writing. You know what we call them? Ex-journalists.

There are more great guys than jerks, so it's a huge list.

A ton of athletes, even if they know your name, pretend they don't.

Donald [Driver] is a good guy, a righteous guy. I have no beef with him. But I have multiple sources on this; people not connected with one another who verified it.

I'm not saying - in any way - that Donald Driver is lying or lacking sincerity. But I trust my reporting.

If I'd had covered [ Brett Favre] in Atlanta, I'd presume he'd go down as another Todd Marinovich. Talent out the gills, but lacking the control and discipline to make much of himself.

That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.

World can run without money and currencies but not without business and trade.

Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought.

The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.

The extremes of opulence and of want are more remarkable, and more constantly obvious, in [Great Britain] than in any other place that I ever saw.

I definitely have my days where I look like I got dressed in the dark.

I love collaborating with strong women.

During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.

The establishment's gonna come together to protect themselves regardless of ideology.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.