In fact, theres a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.

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.

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.

You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Everybody takes what they life from the teachings of the church, and ignores the parts that don't suit them.

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.

There is a reason we used to build Cathedrals that drew the eye upwards.

I define ministry as what you've went through. I believe it takes somebody to go through something to be able to minister to something.

I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.

It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance.