I admire your capacity for admiring.

I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

I desperately want to talk to her now. I want to ask her who it was who so deftly crafted and shaped the legend that was our love.

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

God dwells in His creation and is everywhere indivisibly present in all His works. He is transcendent above all His works even while He is immanent within them.

We have never seen a career like George Strait's in this business, and I venture to say we never will again. He has handled things amazingly well.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Actually I don't choose to expose myself in public. I choose to compete; the other side just comes with the package.

I've got a problem with my legs, they just can't walk past a chippy.

I guess I try to find the humor by juxtaposing deeper themes in literature with what people perceive as being lighter, disposable children's fare in comics.

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.