I would say aside from Moxie soda bottles and Masonic artifacts, there's nothing I really collect.

Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the Earth when I am not busy eating them or wearing them.

A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.

Specificity is the soul of narrative.

I am not beautiful, so I don't know why I'm making myself ugly. But the mustache stays.

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

There is no ritual that enhances creativity other than just starting.

My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.

A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books.

The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.

You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.

Horseracing and ranch horses are two different animals. You're getting race horses out and running and running them. It can be really problematic. A thoroughbred's very delicate.

If we get our salvation, we shall have to pass by him [Joseph Smith]; if we enter our glory, it will be through the authority he has received. We cannot get around him

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

Nothing is more beautiful and romantic than when provision and purpose kiss.

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.

No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance.

Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for a human being to take, day in, day out, and particularly so in hot weather.