I must say, cowboy, I'm impressed. I was worried you could only handle eight seconds at a time.

You're gonna have to hold on tight, because this rodeo is just getting started.

You want a wild ride, J.J.? I'll give it to you, hard and slow until you scream my name.

It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

The Bible warns that money cannot buy happiness! Money cannot buy true pleasure. Money cannot buy peace of heart. And money certainly cannot buy entrance into the kingdom of God.

Never fall for a man whose chief antagonist is himself, whose chief conversational partner is the man in the mirror when he shaves.

Maybe we aren't so very different after all. There's good and bad in both of us, and that's what binds us together, for better or worse.

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

I did a weird thing when I was about 24. For four years I had written quite a lot of poetry, and I started reading through it and thought some of it was really good. So I burnt it all.

Testing children until they cry is a bad idea. It is an educational malpractice.

I don't really do anything that isn't about writing, and I don't really know who I am if I'm not thinking about writing.

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.