How do you say a thing at all, at the end of the day? How do you say what's in your mind? And as soon as you say what you actually have in mind, it's wrong, isn't it?

There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.

Where am I coming from? Where am I going? A fusillade of question marks.

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

Whatever I'm doing, I try to give it everything.

I have just as many liberal ideas as I have conservative ideas that I argue with myself sometimes.

Burberry is now as much a media-content company as we are a design company...

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

Fantasy football is not only a good thing, but a great thing.

I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well.

Home runs come in bunches. You can go two weeks without one or hit four in a week. Sometimes, you just feel that stroke for a week or two weeks straight.

My brother broke into a toothy grin. "Yay! Your brain works!