“As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of the people around me, is less reasonable and less attractive.”

“If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.”

“Successful people do things, and get over with it, and leave others to live their life off it. I DO them. And then I leave it to others to live their life off it.”

“Just as dyed hair makes older men less attractive, it is what you do to hide your weaknesses that makes them repugnant.”

“Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don’t matter, and seeing the value of working on cultivating connection with family and close friends.”

“Old people at the supermarket make you wonder about all those middle-aged people you see jogging the streets to preserve their vascular systems for another fifty years.
And about all the people of all ages all over the country who are eating less, drinking less, smoking less, driving safer and in general looking for a death-proof safety suit to get them over the peak years and down into the valley of old age fit to enjoy the fruits of their abstention and labor.
Will anybody care when they get there?
Will they be able to afford an orange?”

“If I could start my life all over again, I would be a professional football player. And you damn well better belive I'd be a Pittsburgh Steeler.”

“The majority of the people do not seem to agree upon one single law that can be used with less effort in attracting the ideal life partner to us.”

“He’s so slow, so unimaginative, so lifeless. Like zinc white. I see it’s a sort of tyranny he has over me. He forces me to be changeable, to act. To show off. The hateful tyranny of weak people.”

“Never prod at a woman unless you must. She will kill you faster than a man and for less reason, even if she weeps over it after.”