There's an invisible army of woman and men who really don't get why we give so much of ourselves to football. And they need to SPEAK UP.

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.

Like swimming riding writing or playing golf happiness can be learned.

Everyone I built a course for thinks they have the best golf course in the world and I'm very pleased and proud of that.

The only real problem in life is what to do next.

Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.

What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.

Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.

When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action.

I like being employed, you know. That's my favorite kind of acting.

I love when a director says, "I don't know."

He who plants a tree is a servant of God.