Trying to hit Phil Niekro is like trying to eat jello with chopsticks. Sometimes you get a piece but most of the time you get hungry.

What makes a good pinch hitter? I wish the hell I knew.

Write it as a dream, read it as a goal.

I wasn't really sold on being an artist until high school, my senior year. I was going to do the college thing originally.

Being that can be understood is language.

God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.

I find it more comfortable to say I'm an atheist, and for that I probably have someone like Dawkins to thank.

The more I want a book to be done, the faster I type because I just want to get it out.

The price of loyalty is incompetence.

The majority of people mistakenly feel like they don't need a live musical experience.

Being a good designer certainly doesn't guarantee that you're good at business. It's probably more surprising when the two talents coexist in one person.