"I was drinking a lot of bourbon. I was miserable. I was starting to get work, but it wasn't remotely satisfying. It was garbage compared to the theater I was doing."

“The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change.”

“The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.”

“The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.”

“Technically, Japan and South Korea normalized their diplomatic ties 50 years ago, but this wasn't included in the Normalization Treaty because forced prostitution, coerced sex just was taboo to even talk about.”

Source : "South Korea, Japan Reach Major Deal On Wartime Sex Slaves". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. December 28, 2015.

“Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.”

“I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals.”

“The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.”

Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.35, Granta Books

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”