The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time.

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.

Seeing a miracle will inspire you, but knowing you are a miracle will change you.

Paperwork wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for all the paper. And the work.

Treat your anger with the utmost respect and tenderness, for it is no other than yourself.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time any place more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

Quiet moments recharge me.

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.

To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years.

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

If you see Two in One - I only see One in Two