Gonzaga was the kind of place you’d not even think about loving until you’d left it for a couple of years.

There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.

Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry.

If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.

Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing.

An author must gorge himself on ten thousand images to select the magical one that can define a piece of the world in a way one has never considered before.

I wanted to be curious and smart and unappeasable until I got a sentence to mean exactly what I ordered it to mean.

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Even a whale is concealed by darkness.

Get good counsel before you begin: and when you have decided act promptly.

We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.

Play every shot so that the next one will be the easiest that you can give yourself.

People either love me or they think I'm obnoxious. I get that.

Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes.

Attachment is the main thing that is blocking your path towards enlightenment.

I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.

There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy... the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul... the silence of peaceful accord with other persons or communion with the cosmos.