I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.

Your perception plays tricks when you are hoping for something.

Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.

In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.