If you don't have a job, you don't have a fear of losing it. You fear having to get one.

Soccer is like punk rock: The product is not necessarily terrible. The problem is the fan base.

The amount of response I get, in both a negative and a positive context, is completely related to the amount of books I sell, I think. It seems to have nothing to do with what I'm writing, but what degree of success I'm perceived to have. It's really weird, especially since I spent so much of my life covering people who are famous. It's interesting to actually have it happen to me on some level.

It was the kind of love you can only feel toward someone you don't actually know.

Booze is the greatest of all equalizers. Rich drunks and poor drunks both pass out the same way.

-- and it occurred to me that people who don't talk about themselves are limiting their own potential. They think they're guarding themselves for some sort of abstract dange, but they're actually allowing other people to decide who they are and what they're like.

The goal of being alive is to figure out what it means to be alive.