I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.

I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.

Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.

One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

Being single is definitely better than being with the wrong person

But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

The choice is not in what you do. The choice is in the why.

In everyone lives the person called "Monk" (From the Series), the families which are shown by Stephen King and many other people. But when people will understand this?

All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.

If I could have any job I would be a cat... but that's not something I'm supposed to talk about in public.

If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.

The only thing a title can buy is a little time-either to increase your level of influence with others or to undermine it.

It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land

I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too.