I Didn't Read A Serious Book Until

Someone Wanted Me To Write A Profile For Espn About The Commissioner Of Baseball, And I Said, "he's Just Some Suit! Some Republican. No!" I Mean If You Want Me To Write About Baseball, Boxing Or Football, I'll Write About Those Things Because I Watch Them, I Think About Them A Lot And I Like Them. But I Don't Want To Write About Barry Bonds.

I Think Once You Love Somebody, You Love Somebody; That's Just How It Is.

When You Are Sixteen You Do Not Know What Your Parents Know, Or Much Of What They Understand, And Less Of What's In Their Hearts. This Can Save You From Becoming An Adult Too Early, Save Your Life From Becoming Only Theirs Lived Over Again--which Is A Loss. But To Shield Yourself--as I Didn't Do--seems To Be An Even Greater Error, Since What's Lost Is The Truth Of Your Parents' Life And What You Should Think About It, And Beyond That, How You Should Estimate The World You Are About To Live In.

Being A Slow Reader Would Normally Be A Deficiency; I Found A Way To Make It An Asset. I Began To Sound Words And See All Those Qualities - In A Way It Made Words More Precious To Me. Since So Much Of What Happens In The World Between Human Beings Has To Do With The Inconsideration Of Language, With The Imprecision Of Language, With Language Leaving Our Mouths Unmediated, One Thing Which Was Sensuous And Visceral Led To, In The Use Of Language, A Moral Gesture. It Was About Trying To Use Language To Both Exemplify And Articulate What Good Is.

I'm Dyslexic. If You Can Reconcile Yourself To Not Being Able To Burn Through Books, Which You Shouldn't Any Way, You Can Slow The Whole Process Down. Then, Because Of My Disability, There Is More For Me In Imaginative Literature Than There Is For Other People.