"I write about people who are desperate, who are on the edge, who have no other options."

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

Tennis is a brutal sport. There is no place to hide out there.

The defining decade: Why your twenties matter—and how to make the most of them now.《The Defining Decade》

I don't make music for the charts. I make music for the people.

Every patient’s story is a lesson in medicine.