The first sip of beer on a hot day is like that first finger-dip when you open a new jar of peanut butter.

You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.

I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.

When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.

Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something

I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.