If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to me. I found myself thinking of other peoples' worries as sources of amusement and private derision which I thought about at night to make myself feel better.

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.

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.

For, how else to seize such an instant? How to shout out into the empty air just the right words, and on cue? Frame a moment to last a lifetime?