The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that….

If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here and they'r….

I'm kind of a distractible guy..

With imagination, you can put something where nothing was..

It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys?.

I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can slow the whole process down….

We're all hoping that Trump doesn't get our world on his terms because there won't be anything of it left. Trump is a true psychopath, a psychopath i….

Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking….

Cynicism makes you feel smart, I know it, even when you aren't smart..

Theres a lot to be said for doing what youre not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what youre supposed to do are more subtle and take longer t….

Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come..

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks..

I'm trying to cause people to be interested in the particulars of their lives because I think that's one thing literature can do for us. It can say t….

Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws..

Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an urgency-a chaos-, an ins….

I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain..

The pace of life feels morally dangerous to me..

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up..

Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts..

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better..

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did..