Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you're not writing.

And if God were trying to reach out to us, and teach us something about the deepest nature of matter, he might use some drugged-out surfers.

Every man's entitled to hope.

Deadwood was a place created by a series of accidents. A kind of original sin.

The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.

By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we'd have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?

Forgetting is the mind's way of helping you heal. Helping you move on.

There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

I had no intention of pursuing either the characters or the setting further.

Luck influences everything in life, but nothing beats setting goals and striving body and soul to achieve them.