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. — Nick McDonell Copy Share Image
I played football; I was a running back, and I took a hit, and I had a hairline fracture in my leg which no one spotted, and I was playing basketball all winter and it got worse. And then I… — Nick McDonell Copy Share Image
The more I have written, the less it has been about exploring myself, and the more it has been about exploring the world around… — Nick McDonell Copy Share Image
I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I… — Nick McDonell Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows what a penny dropped form the top of the Empire State Building can do. So if it started to rain pennies, millions… — Nick McDonell Copy Share Image
“Because really, when you get down on your knees on the pew, you’re just giving God a blow job.” — Nick McDonell Copy Share Image
I'm not good enough to write about my friends, who are all brilliant and sophisticated. — Nick McDonell Copy Share Image
“The world will spiral out from underneath you, and you will find nothing to hold on to because you are either too smart or… — Nick McDonell Copy Share Image
I know that I work hard for the things that I do, and I really go to the places that I report on. — Nick McDonell Copy Share Image
“Fiindca toata lumea are o notiune exacta despre cum trebuie sa traiasca..” — Nick McDonell Copy Share Image
I'm terrified of getting what I'm not deserving of, feeling that I've got something for nothing... at the expense of brilliant starving writers all… — Nick McDonell Copy Share Image
I was brought up to believe you should always live the most interesting life you can. — Nick McDonell Copy Share Image
“White Mike was a thinker, his teachers said. This is what he was thinking as he watched his mother's coffin being lowered into the… — Nick McDonell Copy Share Image
