Peril-ridden and fragile, the imperfect human body, what a shameful thing it was!

Once a person has been poisoned by self-deception, he can't make decisions about himself as neatly as all that.

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop - for convenience, the one hundredth meridian - you have reached the West.

Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.

The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.

It's no use trying to be different than you are.

You have to believe in yourself, otherwise you can't do it. If you don't believe in yourself, how do expect anyone else to? Because ultimately, you're the one who has to do it.

One of the least enjoyable things for me to do is to talk about myself.

We tend to think of great thinkers and innovators as soloists, but the truth is that the greatest innovative thinking doesn't occur in a vacuum.

Life is hard enough, you don't have to embellish the drama!

Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.

Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.