Songs are your best teachers. I try to learn something from every song I hear

Never let reality get in the way of truth

Don't be afraid to write crap - it makes the best fertilizer. The more you write the better your chances of growing something wonderful.

YOU CAN'T TELL UNLESS YOU SHOW FIRST. ... Showing makes the telling more powerful because your senses and your mind are both engaged.

What is the character trying to say? Why? Be as specific as you can, using sense images that evoke something about the character. Try using the character's senses, even if the character is you.

I hereby grant you permission to write crap. The more the better. Remember, crap makes the best fertilizer.

Imagination is Everything!

Come live with me and be my love And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys groves or hills or fields Or woods and steepy mountains yield.

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.

Think of the purest, most all-consuming love you can imagine. Now multiply that love by an infinite amount-that is the measure of God’s love for you.

Evidence exhausts the truth.

When I came to America, I was really into all the things people eat here. . . . People called me Muffin because I would eat muffins all the time.

What is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own feet have worn. You must make tracks into the Unknown.

Choosing to have a child you can't take care of is like farting in an elevator. Sure you got it out, but not it's everyone else's problem.

To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance.

The one thing about God that's so beautiful is He is omnipotent, and He is the Almighty. But He's not a dictator.