I wrote 'All You Could Ask For' to honor a friend, Heidi Armitage, who left us much too soon in 2009 at the age of 43.

Life is a series of thousands of tiny miracles.

Life is a series of a thousand tiny miracles.

When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing and books have held special places in my heart all my life.

Half of San Antonio's population is of Mexican descent; the other half just eats that way.

Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration.

The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.

There is what we desire to do, and what we are able to do. When those two things don’t coincide, which path should we pursue to find happiness?

What’s wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies

Eating good food is my favourite thing in the whole world. Nothing is more blissful.

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.

Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.

Where the unveiled glories of the Deity shall beat full upon us, and we for ever sun ourseves in the smiles of God.

A lot of the stars were actually in the military and they were really strong characters.

I always did music, but music is an easier thing for me. Making videos and doing comedy things was more of a challenge, so I was more interested in that. Music is a little bit more automatic.

The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.