Gregg Easterbrook — American Author

Gregg Edmund Easterbrook is an American writer and a contributing editor of both The New Republic and The Atlantic Monthly. During the National Football League season, Easterbrook formerly wrote an eclectic column called Tuesday Morning Quarterback on ESPN.com, and that column migrated to the New York Times in September 2015. He has authored nine books (five nonfiction, one of humor, and three literary novels), and writes for op-ed pages, magazines, and journals... (wikipedia)

Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.
Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.
It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.
I'm working seven days a week in the fall. I couldn't possibly keep that up. This is only for the fall. In the last couple of years I've tended to do most of my serious writing in the winter, when there's nothing going on with football.
I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them.