Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky.

It's just another of Robin's sayings. Like, 'Holy strawberries, Batman, we're in a jam! Or, Holy Kleenex, Batman, it was right under our nose and we blew it!

Fear and doubt are major stampeders.

You can’t give somebody faith. They either got it or they don’t.

Friends don’t build cages for each other.

The wound you refuse to dress is one that will never heal. You gush lifeblood and never even know why. It will make you weak at a critical moment when you need to be strong.

In my experience, anybody besides your mom that feeds you is going to want something in exchange for it.

You both talk too much, ” the kid says. “Shut up. Don’t make me tell you again.”We shut up, which I find hysterically funny.

Fine. Okay. I killed her. But I didn’t mean to. And I didn’t kill her, kill her.”“Oh, I see. As long as you didn’t kill her, kill her, then that’s okay.

One of the most important qualities of a president is the ability to inspire, to bring people together for the common good.

Your eyes should never be lent to the devil

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.

The difference between average and good. Good and Great! Great and Phenomenal! It's their mindset!

I'd sell my soul for a good cause.

There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing easy to make it go far. Finish high to make it go straight.

That consciousness of quality, and the need to demand it can galvanize your energies, not just in your work, but in a rigorous exercise of mind and heart in every aspect of your life.

Of course, I had a paradigm of a certain city in my head when I wrote these stories, a city that inspired my imagination, but it was only inspiration.