Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop.

Godzilla. The big, green G-man has had a profound influence on my creative endeavors and imagination since I was blueberry-avoiding kid.

What the podcast novelists do isnt all that different from what self-publishers do. We put the books out in different formats, but the goal is the same: build an audience and attract a publisher.

Leopold, like most men of power and prestige, was not so much interested in listening to what others had to say as he was in having an audience.

The fact that my circumstances had changed drastically but my behavior hadn't was beginning to wear on me.

Kindness is like a warm blanket of snow, softly covering and gently touching the heart.

I enabled your tendency to be vulnerable and weak, and your habits of crying when 6, 000 others were present for the music.

I never really said all those things I said

Food is the most important influence on your health. It is even more important than your thoughts and emotions.

I don't want to be thought of as wholesome.

I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.

That's common in our industry, where some songs make the cut, some don't. It's bad when it doesn't make the cut and you don't get in on the project.

The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest thing is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate. – When people ask you to tell them what to do, resist.

on that piece of white paper, sam wrote, "write about me sometime." and i typed something back to her, standing right there in her bedroom. i just typed. "i will.