Only sometimes you can’t feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I’ve never done. Also, I’m a person whom people talk to.
Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
If sportswriting teaches you anything, and there is much truth to it as well as plenty of lies, it is that for your life to be worth anything you must sooner or later face the possibility of terrible, searing regret. Though you must also manage to avoid it or your life will be ruined.
Cynicism makes you feel smart, I know it, even when you aren’t smart.
The pace of life feels morally dangerous to me.
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 people realize they are being listened to, they tell you things.
Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.
The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.
The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.
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 to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.
The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being.
Any rainy summer morning, of course, has the seeds of gloomy alienation sown in. But a rainy summer morning far from home – when your personal clouds don’t move but hang – can easily produce the feeling of the world as seen from the grave. This I know.
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?
Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.
At the exact moment any decision seems to be being made, it’s usually long after the real decision was actually made – like light we see emitted from stars.
Life’s passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
Most things don’t stay the way they are very long.
Your life doesn’t mean what you have or what you get. Its what your’e willing to give up.