For a woman, body image is always a palpable thing. Weirdly, for me, the only time I don't care is when I'm in character.
Michael still thought of Havana as home, because he was born there. And he had been Miguel Arroya there. Here, he was Michael.
There's only one ball game for any writer, and it's to keep you turning the pages. That's the whole ball game. That's what I have to do.
We can what-if ourselves to death. . . But what-if never does anybody any good. All any of us ever have. . . is one thing, and we better make the most of it while we can: What is.
Read. You don't have to read me. But just read. Read the best people. Everybody's trying to do the same thing, which is keep you turning pages. Everyone does it a different way. But we all want you to understand [our books].
A friend of mine who used to be my boss at ESPN once was asked why sports had exploded the way it had. He said, "Because you can't go to Blockbuster and rent tonight's game. " Every night is different in sports. Every day there are different heroes and villains and conversations after the game.
It's like they take poison and then hope for the other person to die.
Models are back to what they were in the '70s: clothes hangers.
The SI Swim cover was life changing, not just for myself but for women everywhere who've been told they can't do something because of their size. Body positivity is no longer a side conversation, it's mainstream.
I was seduced by the nouvelle vague, because it was really reinventing everything. And the Italian cinema that one would see in the theaters in the late '50s, early '60s was Italian comedy, Italian style, which, to me, was like the end of neo-realism. I think cinema all over the world was influenced by it, which was Italy finding its freedom at the end of fascism, the end of the Nazi invasion. It was a kind of incredible energy. Then, late '50s, early '60s, the neo-realism lost its great energy and became comedy.
Life begins at conception, but allow early abortions.