If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.

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.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other.... or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you