Sometimes, I'll read a news story and there will be one line about something else, and I'll find it interesting and look into it. That can often turn into an entire story on its own.

I'm always reading. And I keep a whole list of stories, often unusual stories. There are a hundred some-odd ideas on that list.

You exist in the minds of other people.

People are really stuck on their ideas about themselves.

I don't know if any of the people perceive themselves as having been made fun of.

I've gotten used to spending more time with heavily narrative stories.

That's always disappointing when you find a good story and you realize the person has died, because then it's difficult to report.

Often my characters have some kind of idealism or grand belief that they're pursuing.

Thoughts become things. If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.

These be they that have put off the mortal clothing, and put on the immortal, and have confessed the name of God: now are they crowned, and receive palms.

The present is too often squandered grieving the past or fearing the future, which makes the present nothing more than a cheap facsimile of what was or what will be instead of what it could be.

Music isn't for the eyes, it's for the ears

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.

God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.

I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

[My favourite song is] "All Along the Watchtower." The Jimi Hendrix cover.

If there's nobody in your way, you're not going anywhere.