Of course many bars in Manhasset, like bars everywhere, were nasty places, full of pickled people marinating in regret.

While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we're defined by what embraces us.

Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best.

Your best is whatever you can do comfortably without having a breakdown.

To be a man, a boy must see a man

Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.

The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.

Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.

Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me. It restored my faith when I was a boy, tended me as a teenager, and when I was a young man the bar embraced me.

A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.

History is the narrative of people searching for a place to go.

Mathilde and Lotto held hands in the taxi going to brunch, communicating, not speaking.

Luck's the word those with poor hearts use for ka...

Keeping baggage from the past will leave no room for happiness in the future.

In the age of facebookerism and tweeterism, people have been manipulated to behave foolishly. " Look at me, i am here" culture has thrived.

Your next victory is behind your next test.

Suspend for a moment your disbelief and encounter once again the sense of wonder you knew when there was... magic!

The ocean, king of mountains and the mighty continents Are not heavy burdens to bear when compared To the burden of not repaying the world's kindness.

If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.

The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.

I didn't lose my mind, it was mine to give away