My backyard was replete with madness, it just grew indigenously in 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.

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

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.

Holy Faith is fear for God.

Never wear a shoe that doesn't fits you.

If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.

You live with your thoughts-so be careful what they are.

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.

You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.

If you're a pro coach, NFL stands for 'Not for long.

All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.

Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky!