Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.

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.

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

When travelling, concentrate on the path! Don’t sleep! Don’t read! Just live the journey in full by observing the path instead of wandering in your own world!

I think that there is a lot going on with young people today.

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

Everything is evil that humans can't control or conquer

I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.

My wife was a Bond girl, in Diamonds Are Forever, so I play James Bond in real life every day.

We were not placed on this earth to walk alone.