To be a man, a boy must see a man

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.

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.

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

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.

I could be the drumbeat in your chest like madness before a storm swirling restlessly.

Sleep is a mirror of life in which can be seen the reflection of death.

Life is better when you're drunk. I ought to become an alcoholic.

You have no chance at getting a rebound unless you make it.

I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.

Just reflecting on the fact that when the Universe punches you in the teeth, it never just lets you fall down. It kicks you in the ribs a couple of times and dumps mud on your head.

As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.

Knowledge, Action and Devotion are complementary to each other.

Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.

People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.