I do think, as crazy as it sounds, that sports is an addiction and that it should be accorded some of the same supports as any other addiction.

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.

We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.

Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.

Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.

At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are.

I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways.

The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.

At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound.

The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.

If you want to fight a cult, you've got to form a cult.

Do not marvel brothers if the world hates you, the world rejected and rebelled against God and His truth.

When you study in the Scripture, the Scripture clearly teaches we're not our own.

Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power.

Music is reflection of self.

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.

If I didn't have the reverb I'd be an unhappy camper. So I want reverb in my monitor mix. Reverb and a good level in my monitor and I'm all set.

Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed

It's like an Alcatraz around my neck