NFL fans have less sympathy for fallen players than the Romans had for blind Christians.

In college football, fans wallow in a culture of failure. Unless you root for Miami, you sadly wait for disaster to strike your team in a manner not seen outside of Fenway Park.

If nothing else, the act of reaching a milestone often serves to reveal a superstar's true nature.

There are times when a sports figure doesn't deserve sympathy.

If there is nothing else there is this: to be inundated, consumed.

You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

We, writers & poets, have a big problem. We swim too deep inside life, also in shallow waters, and then we end touching the sand!

No wonder Sleeping Beauty looked so good...she took long naps, never got old, and didn't have to do anything but snore to get her Prince Charming.

Acting is pretty much my whole life.

Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we do.

Love is pure and kind and forgiving. It is the greatest gift of all.

When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

After I broke the Australian record in 2014, Audi Centre in Canberra gave me a beautiful black A1 with the number plates AI 1111, because the record I broke was 11.11 in the 100.

I got sort of disinterested in working for the system.