The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.

Life is a series of thousands of tiny miracles.

Life is a series of a thousand tiny miracles.

When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing and books have held special places in my heart all my life.

Half of San Antonio's population is of Mexican descent; the other half just eats that way.

Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration.

I wrote 'All You Could Ask For' to honor a friend, Heidi Armitage, who left us much too soon in 2009 at the age of 43.

Life demands death. Life demands death to ego – A state when we only think and care about ourselves.

I sing in key, thank you very much.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that... awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it, as though I were to feel more at home in it than in myself.

It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.

It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.

If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

If you're cooking food, you don't have to count calories.

We’re super fortunate in Pearl Jam to have such loyal fans...who really want to come & see us play.