For every hour a mother gets to herself, a father will demand five times that amount for drinking with friends and acting like an immature dipshit.

You're going to have Yahoo! and places that don't have rights being much more aggressive in how sports news is covered.

You need to be funny in a way that people feel like you're trying to make a deeper connection. So that's what I try to do.

I had to be happy with the process of writing.Each step you take is more rewarding than the one before.

I think it's the next thing, getting out of the comfort-zone readership, that at some point you have to try and break out of that and see if you can go in new directions. I wanted to do something that felt a lot bigger than a book that's going to sit on a toilet.

I'm always amazed by people like David Simon or the people at The Simpsons or J.K. Rowling who can create dozens and dozens of memorable characters. It seems so effortless, and even people who have just three lines in the shows or in the book have a very distinct personality, and you can feel the richness of their personal history.

Thank God there's somebody that doesn't like Stuart Scott. I'm so happy!. It was nice to have that counter-balance to ESPN.