A knee to the balls from a car full of clowns would have been less awkward than the look he was receiving from the whiskey-eyed angel.

We can’t choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones — but we can choose how to come to terms with them.

There is always something to appreciate in people

Never let anything be a set back in your life, not even your thoughts, words nor actions.

For years, I believed that God had been in motion on rare occasions and during biblical times, but I didn't understand that God never stops working on my behalf.

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax.

They were angry, I thought. Horrified. These teenagers, with their hormones, making out beneath a video broadcasting the shattered voice of a former father.

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

Discovery is for forward lookers.

Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.