When I was a kid I ate sports books up, like "Winners Never Quit" by Phil Pepe. That was like my bible.

Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do.

Dogs are the broccaflower of the animal kingdom.

I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.

There's two things I gotta do. One is, I gotta update my resume. And then, I have to call my mother.

Patrick Stewart was the first internet sex symbol without hair but pileggi always thought it was him.

I don't know if [Samuel] Beckett is something you ever bring to the beach - get out of the water, towel off, and start reading some of "The Unnamable." Although, because it's the kind of book you can open to any page and start reading, it is beach reading in that way.