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.

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'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.

For many years I didn't have health insurance.

in modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man out of work is almost a man out of life.

Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

I'm saying my rosary every day.

In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.

Change happens when one individual has had enough pain and finds the inner resolve to ask for help and make a difference.

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

If you want to meet someone who can fix any situation you don't like, who can bring you happiness in spite of what other people say or believe, look in a mirror, then say this magic word: 'Hello.'

Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.

It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.