I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books like this inspire kids to write, or even read a whole book, I think it's good.

Theres some kind of dark symbiosis between lunatics and the Postal Service.

Tommy Smothers is my longest mentor, and Dave Eggers is my youngest.

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.

We shouldn’t use God for our purpose alone but also be instruments of the extension of His Kingdom

Life itself is a chance.

Words are spiritual forces.

You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

Okay, I'm flattered, I appreciate your attempt at making me feel better after the fiasco with the pita rolls, but please ring up this beer I need it more than flattery.

There's always stories about cute girls in the gym, I'm just not one of those people.

That's just the business of boxing. Things just turned out that way. I don't think it was any particular reason. I had opportunities to fight in bigger fights, but things just didn't always work out.

Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

Motivations are too tangled and complex.

God Himself underwrites your battle and has appointed His own Son 'the captain of your salvation'.