“You just don’t know anything about anything. You’re a journalist. Would you like to compare your résumé to mine?”

“The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?”

“You know, if you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything, wouldn't you, at any time? And you would achieve nothing!”

“It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event you are not even a failure. You're just not there.”

“I just don't know," I said, my voice sounding bumby, not like mine, "how do you help someone who doesn't want your help. What do you do when you can't do anything?”

“Sometimes, you also just want to be in your personal space and it doesn’t mean you don’t love (your fans) or anything. It just means you want your space.”

“From my point of view, what’s beautiful in the sport is something you don’t need to know too much about tactics or anything to see. If you find something beautiful, you don’t need to be an expert to know it. It’s like ballet.”

“Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.”

“You don’t know anything, but I know even less.”

“Just because you’re a journalist you are not exempted from assassination, if you’re a son of a bitch.”