Nick McDonell

I'm not good enough to write about my friends, who are all brilliant and sophisticated.

I knew I loved writing, and I was raised by people who love books.

Someone once accused me of slumming. I don't know what that means. I play basketball. And through that, I get to see a world that is not smart-kid world.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

I broke with my religion in college.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.