When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.

I love the idea of the vignette, which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?

From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside the pages there is no reality.

People tend to think of fairy tales as archetypal. They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.

Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I'd feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted queen.

Fairy tales are the skeletons of story, perhaps. Reading them often provides an uneasy sensation—a gnawing familiarity—that comforting yet supernatural awareness of living inside a story.

Fairy tales represent hundreds of years of stories based on thousands of years of stories told by hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions of tellers.

To be truly great, begin to convert all your passing time into products. Begin to invest your time into your purpose and calling.

True love happened rarely and standing in the brink of one, it would in all certainty be an act of cowardice to retreat without letting her know his desire.

However far back you go you will find all experiences linked by slender threads.

No pressure is greater than God's power.

We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us and our allies.

I was never a fan of anything, and yet some people are fans of my books. That's a bit odd. But I like meeting them.

I'm proud to have so many great friends at country radio who believe in what I do - thanks to all of them.

According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist, I'll thank him for the advice.

Political correctness gets in the way of all too many things in this country of ours, I am not a subscriber of political correctness by any means, shape or form.

You have to have non-traditional ways of collaborating. But better is relative.