To be a man, a boy must see a man.

While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we're defined by what embraces us.

Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best.

Your best is whatever you can do comfortably without having a breakdown.

To be a man, a boy must see a man

Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.

The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.

Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.

Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me. It restored my faith when I was a boy, tended me as a teenager, and when I was a young man the bar embraced me.

Of course many bars in Manhasset, like bars everywhere, were nasty places, full of pickled people marinating in regret.

A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.

To learn etiquette, is actually learning how to see others, and respect them.

Listen honey, would I lie to you to get in your pants?

TRUST in GOD and then GO and DO.

The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.

Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.

I learned how to pass when I was real young. That's one thing I always knew how to do was find the open man.

If the Americans do move the embassy to Jerusalem, and eventually the rest of the world follows suit, it will mark the end of Palestinian hopes for a two-state solution.

It is the gift of heaven and not of reason.

Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.