If you want to fight a cult, you've got to form a cult.

Football is Lotto for kids from economically vulnerable neighborhoods.

Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.

I don't really think of my narrator in terms of gender. I think of them much more in basic emotional terms. As an author, you either love yer peeps or you don't. There's no such thing as a "masculine voice" or a "feminine voice". Men and women think and speak and act in, like, a zillion different ways. Also, as a gross generalization: women tend to live closer to their feelings than men.

We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn’t embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and all that we have to offer, in the end, is love.

I do think, as crazy as it sounds, that sports is an addiction and that it should be accorded some of the same supports as any other addiction.

There's an invisible army of woman and men who really don't get why we give so much of ourselves to football. And they need to SPEAK UP.