I don't go to things because I want to see violence, I go to things because I want to see them handled well.

Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death.

But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television.

I am the rightful heir to the flaming global throne of evil. I WILL TAKE THIS WORLD AS MINE, so if you people could just cooperate it would be very nice.

I never killed anyone. I avoid going over that edge by writing about a guy who has taken a flying leap over it.

Doing something purely for one's own enjoyment is fine, but, I must admit, finding that others enjoy it as well has a certain power over the corners of my mouth.

I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider.

Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic.

I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this character and he runs with them. I have fun with however he handles the situation.

I like not being dead. Anything beyond that is just icing on the cake.My undead cake of livingness.

The world would be a much nicer place if people only used guns on themselves.

Repentance is mentioned seventy times in the New Testament . . . the Bible says God commands repentance . . . it is a command . . .God says, “Repent! Or perish!

I must go down to the sea...to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by......

Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.

You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses.

Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises

I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits.

As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world.

I would say that I'm pretty mainstream.

Many would argue that alpinism is art, not sport.

All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.