A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

We must believe in free will - we have no choice.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

Your life was meant for more than being a life-long doormat for deadbeats, losers, gossipers, nay-sayers, dream-crushers, energy vampires, users, abusers, ragers and passive-aggressive backstabbers.

The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats.

What I try to do is give each actor an environment in which they can do their best work.

Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.

I go about in the world - free, busy, happy. Among people, I have no time to think of myself.

Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.

(A)nything not acting as a propaganda arm for the Democrats or the Leftist agenda is considered conservative these days.

It's actually harder to write a fun song.

I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.