You are skilled. I exhort you.

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.

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.

When you have a product that has zero sales, it is easy for people to say whatever they want about it and almost fantasize about it.

My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.

At 17, the first time I saw a dead body, I froze. By 31 it was a natural occurrence for me, and no group of people should live like that.

Be nice to everyone you meet. Because everyone is going through their own struggle.

Did you know that forty percent of the words used by Shakespeare were used by him only once?

Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be 'buttered up' from time to time.