This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

Not having a passport makes me very blasé about what appears in foreign periodicals since I know I'll never see it.

In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

I wasn't all that attracted to writing originally. I read a great deal. My parents read a great deal. I do know that as my interest in tennis waned, my interest in academics increased. I mean, I started doing my homework in high school and discovering that it was somewhat fun. And then in college I barely even played on the team because just classes were much more interesting.

There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.

You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. ... How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away.