People Who Think There Is Something Pedestrian

When You're A Sportswriter, You Learn How To Use Your Imagination And To Flex Your Literary Muscle, Because It's The Same Game Played Over And Over Again. There's Nothing Unique Or Marvelous. It's Not An Earthquake, Or A Weird Mass Murder. It's Just The Same Old Game Played Over And Over, And You Have To Bring Out The Personalities. You Have To Drag Them Kicking And Screaming Out Into The Light Of Day, Or You're Not A Good Sportswriter.

I Believe That If We Are Going To Write About Life And Death, We Should Not Do It From The Cheap Seats.

The Haitians, Who Knew Something About Suffering And Survival, Had A Beautiful Phrase... The Translation Is Not Perfect, But The Nut Of It Was: 'the Season Of Pain Is Never Over Until The Sky Begins To Cry.

It Wasn't That I Had Gotten It Right . . . But That I Had Gotten True.

It Is A Common Condition Of Being Poor...you Are Always Afraid That The Good Things In Your Life Are Temporary, That Someone Can Take Them Away, Because You Have No Power Beyond Your Own Brute Strength To Stop Them.