Even at sixty-two, I can still go harder and further and longer than some of the others. That is, I seem to have reached the point where all I have to risk is just my bones.

They need to save harder and for longer than ever before to put down a decent deposit on a house.

But when you lose a Super Bowl, it's twice as bad. It's like the further you go, the harder you fall.

I think our involvement there has destabilized the Middle East. And the longer we stay there, I think the further destabilization will occur,

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.