First lesson learned: Knowing doesn't hold a candle to doing.

Some may say that I couldn't sing, but no one can say that I didn't sing.

When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.

Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.

Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this.

It’s the glitches and twists, I thought, that make this universe unique and compelling. Without flaws, there would be no depth, no substance.

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.

Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.

If literature stays away from evil, it rapidly becomes boring.

Yeah 220, 221 whatever it takes!" Michael Keaton character in "Mr. Mom

In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there.

I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.

Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet.

It's really fun working on this Marvel movie [ Spiderman]. The essentials of Aunt May are that she's helped raise Spiderman and she's his moral compass.

For every $1 advertisers spend advertising something healthful like apples, they spend $500 advertising junk food.

Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they're doing that? Dress codes! I find that abhorrent.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.