The way in which sports focuses more on the peccadilloes, lives and putative personalities of athletes and less on the finer points of playing games, I've become less interested in it. I don't want to write sports profiles.

It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys?

The pace of life feels morally dangerous to me.

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

I realized I loved you, and I didn't want to be married to somebody I didn't love. I wanted to be married to you. It isn't all that complicated.

I don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way.

Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.