I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.

I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.

Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.

One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

I live love. I am made of infinite love. I choose love in each moment.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Dex had taught her well, and now he would pay.

Tut, tut — fame clearly isn't everything.

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

Change is one thing, progress is another.

I'm concerned with not ever being fashionable.

I'm homeless, in a funny way. My culture I think is completely rooted in German 19th century music I suppose.

A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction.

Leave it to a man to mess things up