Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

Every day that we wake up is a good day. Every breath that we take is filled with hope for a better day. Every word that we speak is a chance to change what is bad into something good.

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him

The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.

Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.

That's the most pathetic part of being a human, the emotions you don't ask for or want, they just rush you anyway.

Critics are those righteous experts who judge other people's hard earned accomplishmens as they themselves stand on the sidelines of life.

If there are any ifs to salvation then no one is saved by grace. Everyone saves himself who can meet the requirements

The truth is, you don't need the Lord to do anything for you. He's already done His part. You've already got it, whatever "it" is.

I have rarely seen the government do anything that was effective.

Good environmentalism is good economics

Uncool is a cool resting place. The pressure's off me.

I worship the God that is Truth or Truth which is God through the service of these millions.

It's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that really matter.

I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world.