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?'

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away.

As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away.

Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.

How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.

Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.

There is no such thing as 'too late' in life.