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.

Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.

I feel more a part of the wrestling community than I feel I belong to the community of arts and letters. Why? Because wrestling requires even more dedication than writing because wrestling represents the most difficult and rewarding objective that I have ever dedicated myself to; because wrestling and wrestling coaches are among the most disciplined and self-sacrificing people I have ever known.

Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.

It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.

Newspapers are even worse for me than ice cream; headlines, and the big issues that generate the headlines, are pure fat.

I've always been interested in miracles, or the miraculous of the unexplained. I don't scoff at what makes people believe or want to believe. I think I understand the tremendous attraction of the mysteries of the church to the same degree that I understand and appreciate the frustration people feel, especially believers, with the human rule-making arm of the church, with the not-miraculous part of the church - any church.