... people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering.

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.

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.

For many years I didn't have health insurance.

My life was dark, torture and empty before you found me. You brought the light, Red. I love you.

Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves

By nothing,under no conditions, be ye perturbed.

There aren't that many superstars around anymore.

I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

Pot came first when I was young. But I did the work. It wasn't a battle of what came first. They went together like "love and marriage, horse and carriage!"

When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.

We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary.

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.