I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.

The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.

When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.

My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.

It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.

Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.

There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction.

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

I came to hate the complainers, with their dry and crumbly lipsticks and their wrinkled rage and their stupid, flaccid, old-people sun hats with brims the breadth of Saturn's rings.

The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.~ Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Sometimes the hardest thing is admitting you were wrong. It’s hard to say you need to be forgiven.

Maybe that's why people don't like you. You make it obvious you don't care whether people like you or not. That makses some people angry.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.

To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.

Life is too short to stress the small things anymore.

We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals.

You don't want no pie in the sky when you die, You want something here on the ground while you're still around.

Love and liveAnd live and loveEach momentTo the fullest.