Chuck Pagano

I grew up in a football family, on the sideline. I was a waterboy. It was kinda something I was around my whole life.

If I can encourage and get somebody to get through what they're dealing with, their set of circumstances, that's the right thing to do.

You're defined by how you play the game, not by the game itself.

As a writer, I try to do different things, but I'm not going to become a darker artist or turn into Radiohead overnight. I don't think that's my style.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I'd just lie around all day. It's the chemo, the poison they pump into you. Sometimes I'd be walking across the room and think, 'There it is; I got to rest.' And I had to, right then.