We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.

I want to be violated by insight.

We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.

It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.

Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.

Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.

I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.

Total Enlightenment is 'Vision without Purpose'.

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

Rivers perhaps are the only physical features of the world that are at their best from the air.

I cannot mislead people into believing that I support organized religion. In Jesus' name, I cannot be complicit with many of the things organized religion does.

If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot be accomplished.

There's no half-assing anything you do if you want to do it well.

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.

It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.

The problem with the world is that not enough nations are trying to emulate what Americans've done.

Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.