While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.

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.

Do you want to know what one of the secrets to achieving all of your goals is? You’ve got to be committed.

There is no certainty, not even your next breath. Live like you are dieing because in reality we all are.

Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue.

I've always liked Anna, but according to my mother, her family is complete New Money, and my grandmother has pointed out on several occasions that they're not even really Southern.

When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.

The point of life is happiness.

I take responsibility for my successes as well as my failures. But when I look at my professional mistakes, I'm always left with the feeling that maybe I should have done more.

My home is a happy place to be. I bless everyone who enters, myself included. Pleasant experiences fill every room.

My voice sucks. I don't like the tone.

The [Bernie] Sanders campaign said you might be suppressing the vote by doing this 'cause people in those states might decide to stay home, that their vote doesn't count.