“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”

In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.

Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

If we don’t have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.

Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

You want to remember that while you’re judging the book, the book is also judging you.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

FEAR stands for face everything and recover.

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

All you need to do is hold on tight and believe.

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.

I’ll never give up on a player regardless of his ability as long as he never gives up on himself. In time he will develop.

Responsibility is the ability to respond.

I can reach a kid who doesn’t have any ability as long as he doesn’t know it.

Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.

If there is one thing that has helped me as a coach, it’s my ability to recognize winners, or good people who can become winners by paying the price.

I’m no genius, but I’m a damn good football coach.

The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.

You try to make your team do something they’re not capable of and you get murdered.