Don't let go too soon, but don't hold on too long.

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

We don't see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become.

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'

Anger is a poison. It eats us inside. We think when we hate someone we hurt them, but hatred is a curved blade, and the harm we do to others we also do to ourselves.