The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.

So if a Christian is touched only once a year, the touching is still worth it, and maybe on some given Christmas, some quiet morning, the touch will take.

We're all controlled neurotics.

I understood drinking to be the gasoline of all adventure.

Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.

I watch YouTube and other peers of mine. There's a lot of things I can't do and also I'm very unorthodox, I want to work on my mechanics and technique.

One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet.

I'm alienated from this world because its weird and I don't want to be a part of it. I want to be part of the people that are more imaginative and crazy.

I'm proud of 'Black Hawk Down' because I think it told a provocative story and it was honest. It could have had more opportunity to tell both sides of the story, but I'm still proud of it.

I doubt I would ever be missed. Noted absent, charged delinquent, reprimanded but never missed.

Writer is a monkey, jumping from one tree to another in the jungle of words.

By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.

The first thing you see when you walk into a store is color.