I'm always reading. And I keep a whole list of stories, often unusual stories. There are a hundred some-odd ideas on that list.

You exist in the minds of other people.

People are really stuck on their ideas about themselves.

I don't know if any of the people perceive themselves as having been made fun of.

I've gotten used to spending more time with heavily narrative stories.

Sometimes, I'll read a news story and there will be one line about something else, and I'll find it interesting and look into it. That can often turn into an entire story on its own.

That's always disappointing when you find a good story and you realize the person has died, because then it's difficult to report.

Often my characters have some kind of idealism or grand belief that they're pursuing.

Where there is SMOKE there is usually FIRE. Believe NONE of what you hear and HALF of what you SEE!

Loneliness is the poverty of self solitude is the richness of self.

Before you can move in new directions, you must first let go of what's not working for you.

I don't think we can rule out a wave, I think a Democratic takeover is possible but not probable.

A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

I'm too much of a big kid.

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

A man crawls into a tomb to die. A boy crawls in to live. You think that's chance?

Whatever the police or politicians may tell us, this is a violent and threatening place. Living here is dangerous.