Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

Once you've opened yourself up, it's best to go all the way.

The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.

He's too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie.