With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.

Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.

We all have banker problems. We all have issues.

Meeting the people. I love it. Just talking with people and sharing part of their lives for just a few moments ... I get love and appreciation and I hope I give them the same.

The science of a religious man must be scientific the religion of a scientific man must be religious.

your beauty always overpower everything that is anything less...

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

You know, you don't need to grow old to die. I was dying at the age of 20 as a result of no direction and no purpose.

Comedians and Feminists... are natural enemies, because stereotypically-speaking, feminists can't take a joke and... comedians can't take criticism.

Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems.

It's funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can't remember the exact years, it's funny isn't it?

I wanted to make room for antiheroes.

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.