The truth is, every sport has been turned into a huge, nihilistic business.

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.

We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.

Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.

Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.

At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are.

I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways.

The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.

At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound.

The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.

If you want to fight a cult, you've got to form a cult.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

In a very tragic kind of way, sometimes things have to be gone before I fully realize that they were ever there.

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

When you're young that's when you feel like you can change the world. Then you get older and you buy a house and have kids, and you don't want to be so bold anymore.

Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.

To win the Champions League with Porto, you have to be tactically acute

People wrote me off, but I believed in myself. I got the confidence back, and it grew and grew. I won my first major and my last at the place that changed my life.

A God wise enough to create me and the world I live in is wise enough to watch out for me.

The way of obedience is the way of blessing.