may he bring you life, and in that life, may you find joy.

If there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value.

I have a lot of guns on my ranch. I don't use them for hunting. I'm not a hunter. It's for protection. The Second Amendment was designed for tyranny.

Nasty is the new normal in Florida. Politics here is very gutterlike. It's like a very bad reality TV show that still gets very high ratings.

I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally.

Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.

Rap is like a set-up...a lot of games, A lot of suckers with colorful names. 'I'm so-and-so,' 'I'm this, I'm that.' But they all just wick-wick-wack.

Forgiving is the ultimate source of peace, healing and inner happiness.

If you're digging a hole in the wrong place, making it deeper doesn't help anything.

I don't like to think that I am a slave to technique, or so inept that I have to restrict myself to one method.