Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.

Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.

With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.

The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it.

I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them.

A smile is on everyone's lips.

You can not have empty or neutral mind, as long as you work the mind will contain dreams, if you stop working it will contain regrets.

It’s about running wild in a field of exclamation points chasing question marks

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student centuries afterwards who treasures it!

I'm just waiting for God to tell me what to do, but whatever it is, I want to be doing something like I am doing now-serving God and helping people.

I went to school to be an actor in Canada and realized I hated auditions once I left, which is a huge problem if you want to get a part.

Change is one of my favourite words.

There's nothing like castrating 20 pigs before lunch. I did that during school whenever the need arose. They'd call out the agricultural class and put us in trucks to go help the local farmers.

Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.

That's what music should be like all the time. No stress, moving things forward, inspiring the youth, and doing it with style and vigor.