He had a talent for asking exactly the right questions to lead me to my own answers. Just being near him made things clearer.

When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability.

There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better.

Each person is a V.S.P. (a Very Special Person) because we are each created in the image of God.

It's fun because you can escape and learn about what other people's minds have created. It inspires you to think maybe you could come up with a creature yourself. I like that.

What I'd really like, Dad, is to borrow the car keys.

Column writing is like gas - it fills the available space.

I think Ill take my record of 13 goals to the grave.

I require and enforce as non-interrupted a state of living as you can get in America right now without going off to live by yourself in the mountains.

I'm nobody's deputy. I am who I am. I'm my own person.

The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.