We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.

Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!

No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.

My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.

I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.