Criminals are dumb as stumps. If they were smart they could go be investment bankers. Or judges.

I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here.

If it's broken, it can be fixed.

Read heavily in the area where you want to write. Be aware of what's selling and what's doing well but don't try to write to market trends; they are fleeting.

The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment.

I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during a time in your life when you want to forget the world around you.

There is a time on every job where you say, screw caution. I'm not foolhardy. I'm not stupid. But sometimes you have to be the battering ram.

It’s your call. You want to go back home, go ahead. But if I were you, I wouldn’t. Home is death.

I'd spent five minutes looking at Twitter once and felt I'd wandered into a poker game where everyone immediately displayed their hands against the cool green of the felt.

Emma, okay, enough with the singing. Mommy's getting a three-pill headache.

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Jesus not only preached liberty, but has the authority to direct history toward its final victory.

I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's just a different style of humor.

At a major label you can start to feel that you're working for them, and that any work you do, you're never going to see any benefit.

If you can't think of anything nice to say, come sit here beside me.

Kant is the most evil man in mankind's history.

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.

If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.

My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child

....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.