Married Life Requires Shared Mystery Even When

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're Over, And That Has To Be Enough.

When I Write A Novel I Start Each Morning By Reading For 20 Minutes.

I Want Saner Gun Laws. I Think All These Automatic Weapons Should Be Banned, Big Clips And Handguns Should Be Banned. As Far As I'm Concerned, Shotguns And Hunting Weapons Are All That We Should Allow In America.

Marrying The Right Girl Is Even More Imperative Today Than It Was When I Was 23 Years Old Because It's So Much Harder To Get On As An Imaginative Writer Like Me Now. You Need To Have Somebody Who Believes In What You're Doing And Who Never Is Skeptical About What You're Doing. My Wife Thought It Was A Great Thing For Me To Be A Writer Because In Practical Terms It Freed Her To Do What She Wanted To Do, Which Was Work.

What I Know Is, You Have Chance In Life--of Surviving It--if You Tolerate Loss Well; Manage Not To Be A Cynic Through It All; To Subordinate, As Ruskin Implied, To Keep Proportion, To Connect The Unequal Things Into A Whole That Preserves The Good, Even If Admittedly Good Is Often Not Simple To Find.