On the forest floor was the LVR's smoldering ceiling panel, just lying there like the lid of a sardine can that had been eagerly and violently thrown away by someone who very much liked sardines.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him participate in synchronized diving.

The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time and I will stab you with this ink quill.

You see, unlike most writers today, I do not use a computer. I write the old-fashioned way: on the walls of caves.

Captain Jibby looked at the door, clenched his teeth, and worked his face into a scowl so fierce you would think the door had insulted his mother - which, for the record, it had not.

I should mention, by the way, that LVR stands for Luminal Velocity Regulator. I suppose it could also stand for Large Venezeulan Rats, but in this case it does not.

Fear is never a good counselor and victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.

Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

People need to be edited; life needs to be edited. I need to be edited.

Little Boy Blue... he needed the money!

Obviously the Senate is a federal office, but to get California's economy moving again we need to do some things in the federal arena.

We are made by God, we are made like God, we are made for God.

Feet on ground, Heart in hand, Facing forward, Be yourself.

I think any time you've got a story based on a true story, no matter how accurate it is, obviously it's still fictitious.

Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.

I'm still the king of me.