Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.

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.

With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.

Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.