I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian.

Write your goddamned book now. The world awaits.

Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper.

I had the sensation that I might always be running like this, that I would always have to run, and that I would always be able to run.

Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, The Things They Carried, has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction.