“I work out four days a week in the off-season, and in the warm, runnin...” — Andre Dubus III Quote

I work out four days a week in the off-season, and in the warm, running weather months, I do five days. A push/pull regime of weightlifting, cycling, and the occasional Saturday or Sunday run with my oldest son, even if it's cold out.

I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it.

Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.

I would say, stay the hell away from the party scene. Anything you put in front of your goal, and especially something like that, whether it's too much gambling, too much food, too much cold beers on the weekend - anything that you put in front of the prize is going to end up getting in the way and hurting you in the end.

The income in tennis is very up and down, very hot and cold. So I'm very conscious of saving for rainy days. You have to make sure you're taken care of in the time in which things aren't going well.

When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.