“For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relen...” — Adam Mansbach Quote

“For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure.”

“You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how cool it would be to go back to 1973 and buy all the great funk and jazz and salsa records that came out that year on tiny obscure labels and are now really rare and expensive.”

“One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.”

“For the actors, the talent is to serve the demands that I ask of them, to do it with naturality and truth, and to be honest when we were terrified.”

“I need to look back on my poetic ventures, make sense of them as a whole, and move forward... and to experiment without external demands.”

“Football demands that it's No. 1 in your life. As you get older, football becomes less of a priority.”