The joy sometimes is in the simple beauty.

I don't understand blogs. People used to write to make money, no? You didn't give it away. I have nothing against blogs. I don't have a problem with them. But it's like, 'What are you doing? Why aren't you working?

So much of life, so much of work, is luck.

Hockey is the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight.

If the players aren't getting paid, there's something terribly, terribly wrong, and that's true only in the United States. Everywhere else, where money is involved with sport, the players get paid. But these poor kids in college, they're doing it for free, and that's just disgraceful.

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

If you're a white kid growing up and you see a Black player and he's got the name of your college or your town across his chest, that means something.