I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school.

There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.

The good old days are now.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."

Marriage is not the beginning of the journey, nor the end - it is the journey.

Can you, at a minimum, objectively step back—throw out the stereotypes, ditch the conformity, set aside the religion—and ask yourself, why? Why Jesus?

Each and every animal on earth has as much right to be here as you and me

Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other.

Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility

God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.