If sportswriting teaches you anything, and there is much truth to it as well as plenty of lies, it is that for your life to be worth anything you must sooner or later face the possibility of terrible, searing regret. Though you must also manage to avoid it or your life will be ruined.
Fear and hope are alike underneath.
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.
She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind.
Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.