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

People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation.

First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much.

I was a teenager in the '80s - and maybe I'm wrong about this - but it seemed like a bad era for movies that were scary. It was really the height of movies that were disgusting.

When given the choice, we’d all rather be happy now … even if that guarantees we’ll all be sad later.

As more and more people recognize the level of violence involved and the consequences of CTE [chronic traumatic encephelopathy, a degenerative brain disorder], they're obviously going to say "We don't want this to be a part of culture." And they overlook the fact that there's a huge swath of the populace where physicality is still a real common thing.

When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing.