Half of San Antonio's population is of Mexican descent; the other half just eats that way.

Life is a series of thousands of tiny miracles.

Life is a series of a thousand tiny miracles.

When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing and books have held special places in my heart all my life.

Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration.

The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.

I wrote 'All You Could Ask For' to honor a friend, Heidi Armitage, who left us much too soon in 2009 at the age of 43.

... even though we belong to three different religions. We are alike in so many more ways than we are different.

Clearly our current form of medicine will bankrupt us and simultaneously keep the chemical industry the number one money-maker as physicians nurture a nation of drugged zombies.

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

There will be roadblocks but we will overcome them.

I was an actor for over a year before I ever saw a play.

I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.

When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.

Nature's tears are reason's merriment.