I enjoy shooting. Around where I live, it's something you do for entertainment once in a while, you go out and shoot targets.

Donkeys are the most misunderstood and abused animals around the world.

I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.

I worked probably fewer jobs than most people, or fewer real soul-killing jobs than other people. I've been a typist, a typesetter, a keyliner, cappuccino-maker. I think I've been pretty lucky.

My donkeys are Jack and Don Quixote. They're very smart, very cautious. Much of what people consider stubbornness in donkeys is actually cautiousness.

As a writer, I can live somewhat independently, occupying nooks and crannies and finding meaning there. I can even live in my mind a good portion of most days.

A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.

That's where I live, a junkyard in a neighborhood of junkyards. We have three tractors from the 1940s and '50s, several old pickup trucks, and a pile of scrap metal.

I have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training.

Time is never wasted coming to an old man bar.

I grew up with donkeys, as well as horses, but I'm more interested in donkeys.

I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.

I thought the trees down in Lady Zelana’s country were about as big as a tree could get, ” he said, “but the ones around here are so tall that they probably tickle the moon’s tummy when she goes by.

Don't pick up hitchhikers!"- D. Adams

If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.

Please note that, at no point in the performance, does my hand leave the end of my arm.

My, I get so depressed after a poor meal; that's why I can never stay in England for more than a week.

When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.

A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.

When I was 22, I thought I couldn't wear heels because of my height.

Male groupies gettin' shaky when I come from the rear.