It is not that sport, over-indulged in, coarsens the mind; it is that it dulls it.

A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.

Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.

There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.

As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence.

As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.