You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a quarter or so into your paper cup. I can afford to give you this. This does not break me.

I love to be surprised or challenged or told that I know less than I thought that I knew. I know it's an old saw, but the older I get the less I know I know.

I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road.

I often cannot believe the things I do.

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

Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.

When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.