People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.

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.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.

The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.

Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is.

Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven