Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it was brilliant and those who did not understand it and thought it was brilliant.

What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?

We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.

A fan is always an outsider. Most sportswriters are not, by this definition, fans. They capitalize on access to athletes. They spoke to Kobe last night, and Kobe says his finger is going to be fine. They spent three days fly-fishing with Brett Favre in March, and Brett says he's definitely coming back for another season.

The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.

..... it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.

Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as a writer.