People are disappointed if you're not entertaining and to be entertaining often means to be drunk.

Thank God for books, for validating your feelings, and letting you know you’re not alone.

Where the writing takes place doesn’t matter to a publisher, but it matters a great deal to the author.

A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.

Weight doesn't matter as long as you're happy with yourself.

It is one thing to play for your university. It is another to play for your country.

some angels are destined to fall

In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron.

No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

I felt puny and absurd, a ludicrous midget. Easy enough to talk of soul and spirit and existential worth, but not when you're three feet tall.

Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is.