What we remember, and how we order and interpret what we believe to be true, are what shapes who we are.

If you never forgive you'll always be alone.

In every book I ever wrote the point was to do as much as you could after coming to terms with your limitations.

The best book I read in 2007 was Stoner by John Williams. It’s perhaps the best book I’ve read in years.

Tom Kealey might be my favorite short story writer and this astonishing collection is long overdue.

Trying not to believe things when in your heart you are almost sure they are true, is as bad for the temper as anything I know.

PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary.

The author describes a previous Bible study with a lot of turnover as "not so much together as in each other's midst.

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.

You have to know your body. It's part of the beauty of the training process, and once you've determined how much your body and mind can take, you can then begin to reach your potential.

I don't want to know how you did it. I want to believe you are magic.

I'm a history geek and I love American history. It's so bizarre and so problematic and I love the many conundrums that it represents. You can go down so many black holes.

Apathy borders upon folly.

When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.