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

Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.

Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

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

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.

I didn't feel up to writing about 9/11. If I were to write about it, it would take me years.

I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do.