Like many parents in middle age, he's quick to spot changes in the world, slow to note shifts in his own perspective.

The point of living in the world is just to stay interested.

I wasn't glad that I hadn't died. And I wasn't sad that I hadn't. I wasn't anything.

If you love something, know that it will leave on a day you are far from ready.

I thought at times that poetry might be an elegant way of screaming.

Time only goes in that one direction.

Every loneliness is a pinnacle

Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.

Great success breeds a lot of things, including sequels.

Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.

Mobster stories are always a harder sell for me. I don't romanticize organize crime the way others do, though I can be swayed.

The Japanese have a word for it. It's Judo - the art of conquering by yielding. The Western equivalent of Judo is, "Yes dear".

There are more copies than originals among people.

I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.

I am passionate about God, about Jesus, and what His influences do to me.

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.