Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.

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

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle.

Someone wanted me to write a profile for ESPN about the commissioner of baseball, and I said, "He's just some suit! Some Republican. No!" I mean if you want me to write about baseball, boxing or football, I'll write about those things because I watch them, I think about them a lot and I like them. But I don't want to write about Barry Bonds.

If Trump was just a piddly-ass little hotel owner some place, having the kind of character and manners that he has, he would not be worth our notice. But because he's now been based to this huge stage, then his dimensions become immense. He's not a tragic figure because he doesn't have the capacity to be tragic. But the consequences of his life and his self now are immense; they're threatening to the world and to the sanctity of human life.

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.