I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.

Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.

One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

Because Cards' fans are the most knowledgeable and loyal in all of baseball, they booed almost reluctantly, polite as booing goes, what would have passes as a standing ovation in Philly.

I had a dream that boys would act like men for once…then I woke up.

Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his language.

Do the thing that scares you.

Emma is a mattress who got thrown off the truck when her parents split up. It's not like you can blame a mattress when people don't tie it down tight enough.

When you're a musician and you release an album, you have to accept the criticism - and I accept it! But it's something I'll never get used to.

Americans should demand real news, more transparency and more truth.

Being Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm was the best thing to happen to Larry David in life.

To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.

'She's Gotta Have It' was shot in twelve days and two six-day weeks.

Every film can be fun, even if it's a terror.