Writing is an outlet, but it’s not an outlet of escape. People keep a journal when they want to escape. I write to rub my face in it.

You lose everything you love in the order in which you love it.

They don't understand it. They're not old enough to know the first instinct of irritation should be avoided in order to keep an open mind.

Today, it's possible to read both erotica and books written for children without fear of social castigation.

It was clear that in a past life the detective had been a phone booth beside an empty highway.

My mind told me he most have had a weapon

sometimes bravery lies in stepping down from the last step for the better result of mankind and that's where life differentiate between best and the great ones.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking what I'm looking at what I see and what it means what I want and what I fear.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz said if elected president he would abolish the Department of Education. But not to worry. He promised to replace it with the less expensive Bureau of Book Learning.

I've never been unemployed. I've never been very fully employed either.

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Be humble and you will never be disturbed. It is very difficult in practice because we all want to see the result of our work. Leave it to Jesus.

The Earth we evolved to inhabit is turning into something more turbulent and unreliable at a pace too fast for most living things to adapt to.

A curator is an information chemist. He or she mixes atoms together in a way to build an info-molecule. Then adds value to that molecule

We went to see him later (on Saturday night) and he was sitting on his hospital bed, getting pelters from my missus for still being in his dirty kit, absolutely stinking.