“Sinatra slowly found a way to allow tenderness into the performance wh...” — Pete Hamill Quote

“Sinatra slowly found a way to allow tenderness into the performance while remaining manly. He perfected the role of the Tender Tough Guy and passed it on to several generations of Americans. Before him, that archetype did not exist in American popular culture.”

“The Internet has got great tools. How we lived without Google all those years I don't know.”

“Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.”

“To allow the construction of places of worship other than Islamic ones in Saudi Arabia, it would be like asking the Vatican to build a mosque inside of it.”

“Fighting isn't an ordinary career, so you have to allow your body time to recover in between training sessions.”

“I've been diagnosed with what's called vocal tension dysphonia. The muscles around my vocal chords kind of constrict my vocal chords from doing what they should do. It's kinda like being a body builder and you have muscles that are so large that they don't allow you to have flexibility, if that makes sense.”