A house built on greed cannot long endure.

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.

And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

Not all questions can be answered.

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

What you do today defines tomorrow.

Doctors sometimes don't know what they do!

Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.

The thing is to dazzle

Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.

You do what it takes. It was on me to deliver.

I dabble in all kinds of spirituality. I studied Kabbalah for over ten years, and you know it's all basically the same.

If I could give you one line about writing worship songs, it would be ‘Sing your prayers.’

The unprepared speaker has a right to be afraid.

Once you have a history together, it's just another love for life. Everything is easier. It is just easier to live.