You fight to win; you argue to achieve agreement.

People may claim to hate puns, but most true word lovers have groaned to like them.

Persuasion isn't about the people you disagree with. It's about the fulcrum; the persuadable audience.

Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy country of longnecks and short tales.

When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole, I'm writing to that drum rather than the psychological process.

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

The more one gets to know of men, the more one values dogs.

"Nags" nag because they feel they aren't being heard.

It's like, you know how sometimes you see a really sexy baby? Wait.

They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.

I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.

The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out?

What gets measured gets done.