Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.
Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.
Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood.