For many years I didn't have health insurance.

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.

You are serving someone for the rest of your life, not knowing a time must come when you must also be served.

When I see everyone rushing in one direction, I know it's time to move the other way.

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.

I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and so I started to write in earnest.

There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.

We still have a long way to go before we can declare America safe, and that means doing a better job along our borders, as well.

for many people, loneliness was an experience of time. 'Not knowing what to do with yourself' was the way it was usually put.

A star is shining within us and that is our Spirit.

When your life is on course with it’s purpose, you are your most powerful.

In the long term, you have to believe that movies and TV shows will be like the opera and the novel, pretty nichey businesses.