Highway One, Antarctica is a wonderful debut by a writer with razor-sharp insights to the human condition. Justin Herrmann is a voice I hope to hear more from, and soon. Excellent collection.

Sleep is just a good idea. I bow to the god caffeine.

Mothers are only human, you turn it over to God and then you just wing it.

I really recommend that anyone who wants to write have a very physical hobby that takes you away from books and criticism, because it teaches you, it informs you, and it changes your writing.

It’s my belief that animals can help a human being travel to the wounds of childhood. The best part is, once you go there, you can fix things. Get on with life.

Juniper laughed for real, but one of those fake smiles he considered a plague of the Caucasian race followed. If you’re sad, be sad, he wanted to say.

I always look towards the light of my desires, so I never forget where I'm going.

The bigger the words the weaker the voice.

Strange how much you've got to know Before you know how little you know.

The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

The love of God toward you is like the Amazon River flowing down to water a single daisy.

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

She who dies with the most stilettos wins.

It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

A standing army, however necessary it may be at some times, is always dangerous to the liberties of the people. Such power should be watched with a jealous eye.

All this is a dream to me. Everything, the applause, the fans asking for autographs, the trips, all that is a dream.