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

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.

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.

For many years I didn't have health insurance.

Writing is the easiest way to escape from the real world.

...sin is separation.

I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

I know hedge-fund guys that are making hundreds of millions of dollars a year and pay no tax. And I want to lower [tax] for the middle income. The middle class in this country has been decimated.

I dig Strauss and Wagner, those cats are good...

We are each an army of one. March forward with your army, never let go of your future and never listen to idiots who tell you ‘no.’

I prefer children because they are honest. They don't want anything from you other than to have fun. Adults have let me down. Adults have let the world down.

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

Thoughts lead to feelings. Feelings lead to actions. Action leads to results.