...self-consciousness Is A Man's Worst Enemy.

The Truth About Autobiographical Songs, He Realized, Was That You Had To Make The Present Become The Past, Somehow: You Had To Take A Feeling Or A Friend Or A Woman And Turn Whatever It Was Into Something That Was Over, So That You Could Be Definitive About It. You Had To Put It In A Glass Case And Look At It And Think About It Until It Gave Up Its Meaning.

Reading Begets Reading.

The Natural State Of The Football Fan Is Bitter Disappointment, No Matter What The Score.

Like All Books That Have That Kind Of Momentum, It Starts From Word Of Mouth.

Everything's Complicated, Even Those Things That Seem Flat In Their Bleakness Or Sadness.