What gets projects done for me is not inspiration. It's curiosity and rigor.

Play in curiosity is where everything happens.

You can't get to wonderful without passing through alright.

Critical in this process of wisdom being passed down is that you also need to take it in; you need to listen to it.

Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thinking that produces pride instead of love is not true thinking.

Every wave in an ocean has a secret to tell you

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.

My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch. Towns are too distracting.

If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.

Life is way too short to fly coach.

Your body considers alcohol a toxin and will basically stop trying to digest food you ate to get rid of the alcohol and this can cause the food you ate throughout the day to be stored as fat.

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.