There are three stages: Thoughtless being. Thought. Return to thoughtless being.

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.

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.

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.

Human beings do terrible things to each other and the tragic thing about it all is the way the remembrance of past hurt can rob us of our future and become the narrative of our lives.

Until you are Tried and Tested, Your Greatness will have no meaning

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

I honestly think that with every song you release you have to keep winning your own fans over again.

Tax returns give you nothing. Tax returns give you no information.

Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.

I think if you do not enjoy your time, your life, if you do not live intensely and do not spend time with your family, in one way or another it will be reflected in your career.

Brains can argue, but it takes heart to comfort.

My life is a dream come true of a dream I never knew I even had

Ive written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.