I'm just kind of really interested in athletes as artists of a pretty serious variety and people who devote themselves to what they do in a really incredible way.

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht.

It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention.

It's very hard right now to be a pro sports fan. The economics of this stuff is abysmal.

... people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering.

I play American football every Saturday, which I find calming.

Most writers, most books, you have no idea whether it was a dollar or a million dollars.

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

For many years I didn't have health insurance.

In life it is difficult to find a way of life, but later is much more difficult to stay on that road... So before any decisions think carefully.

If you are a queen and I am a queen then who will fill the bucket of water?

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

In the Bible, the race of life is never considered from the viewpoint of speed... We are to run it with patience.

Writing is fifty years behind painting.

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.

In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism. I was never the same after that summer.