As a writer, I can live somewhat independently, occupying nooks and crannies and finding meaning there. I can even live in my mind a good portion of most days.

Donkeys are the most misunderstood and abused animals around the world.

I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.

I worked probably fewer jobs than most people, or fewer real soul-killing jobs than other people. I've been a typist, a typesetter, a keyliner, cappuccino-maker. I think I've been pretty lucky.

My donkeys are Jack and Don Quixote. They're very smart, very cautious. Much of what people consider stubbornness in donkeys is actually cautiousness.

A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.

That's where I live, a junkyard in a neighborhood of junkyards. We have three tractors from the 1940s and '50s, several old pickup trucks, and a pile of scrap metal.

I have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training.

Time is never wasted coming to an old man bar.

I grew up with donkeys, as well as horses, but I'm more interested in donkeys.

Where I live you're not supposed to shoot a firearm within a quarter mile of a dwelling.

Yea... It's impossible to lead with true virtues if you surround yourself with praise singers... people who do not cheer you up, instead of cheering up your dreams!

Be respectful of your Sensei.

There are many other kinds of milk available. Why don't we try drinking rats' milk and dogs' milk?

I think one of the big things that's come out of ghostwriting for me is real compassion for the complexity of fame.

May we catch enough of a vision of Christ that we will not be satisfied unless we know him more fully.

I have learnt not to make plans in life, because a lot of time you make a plan that is not going to work for you

Many a man's tongue broke his nose.

If I were a girl for a day I would try to sleep with Tom Kaulitz.

The job can't be finished only improved to please the customer.

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.