I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous.

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.

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.

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.

... A nightmare is something you awaken from, Peter, " she had said. "But thoughts and ideas that remain after its terrors have disappeared are something considerably worse.

It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

Steve Rom's bravery is unique. Faced with life-threatening circumstances, he focused his determination and spirit to defeat an unbeatable disease. Steve's story is an inspiration to all.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.

Isn't it the unexpected that teaches us the most?

A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is a bad as an act of cruelty to a human being.

No matter what the past has dealt you, don't let it destroy your future.

To be a striker you need to be in good shape.

Man is certainly the most disgusting kind of worm that has ever crawled on this stupid ugly planet.