Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

My big fish must be somewhere.

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.