For some strange reason I get some of my brightest ideas on the toilet seat, with my clothes on.

When it comes to the core of who we are, it takes incredible effort to shift more than one standard deviation from the mean of your life.

My son hit his head on a couch and pushed it away. He never went near that couch again. It is amazing what and 1 year old boy can teach you about life.

Dreaming is easy. Creativity is a lot of work.

Three people I take their words with a grain of salt: a person in love, a drunk and an insurance agent. They never really mean exactly what they say.

If I knew what I know today, years ago, I wouldn’t change a thing about anything. I would not have appreciated what I know today if it hadn’t been for what I didn’t know.

For every writer, there is a challenge of time that is only magnified in the solitude of the work.

I have found that there is indeed a secret to a happy marriage. It is called perspective.

Learning is not child's play

What I like doing these days is spending more time with coaches because I think it's important to work on yourself.

All suggested accounts of the origin of the solar system are subject to serious objections. The conclusion in the present state of the subject would be that the system cannot exist.

Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich

Not having to worry about money is almost like not having to worry about dying.

You see him coming in with an 0-2 record and a 5 ERA and you wonder, 'How? How's that possible?

Often it doesn't occur to you what kind of novel you're writing until quite late on.

I felt better about myself that I did it [calling Max Askeli Commander Askeli], rather than have - rather than thinking it and not writing it for being afraid of what might happen to me.

If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

What makes human life - which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.