Your best is whatever you can do comfortably without having a breakdown.

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.

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.

You need to understand something. Forgiveness isn’t an emotion. It’s an action, and it’s a choice. It’s the choice to not let the past affect how you feel about her.

The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.

Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time.

I've got three sisters, five aunties, and my mom. It must have had an influence on me growing up.

History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.

Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old.

In short, if there were external bodies, it is impossible we should ever come to know it; and if there were not, we might have the very same reasons to think there were that we have now.

Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.

I've had a career where I've bounced around a lot between different genres, and I feel very lucky and very blessed that that's happened to me.

You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.