I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse.

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.

When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.

In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night.

They were good parents. The worst thing they ever did to us was die.

There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.

Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.

The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what I have to say. I work hard at it, but it's addicting, really.

May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

I think playing the way I played, and knowing the game the way I know it, I think I'm going to have a better idea as to what the mindset of each player was.

I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.

I don't worry about anything but winning races.

If everything goes right then I can get going.