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.

To be a man, a boy must see a man

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.

The blessings that come out of pain will forever be greater than the pain is even as you have passed through it.

just throw away all thoughts ofimaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.

My mother is everything to me. She's my anchor, she's the person I go to when I need to talk to someone. She is an amazing woman.

If bribery is good enough for Congress, it's good enough for me.

The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.

In the good times of Dada, we detested polished works, the distracted air of spiritual struggle, the titans, and we rejected them with all out being.

I have found it very important...to let go of my wishes and start hoping.

We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don't want to make a fuss.

If things are going slow, I'm itchy.