I am 5'6' and desperately wish I was taller.

I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.

Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.

One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

It is the adventure and uncertainties of the journey that makes life so beautiful and interesting.

Sam, there comes a time when the world no longer needs heroes. And then the true hero knows to walk away.

Skeptics are never deceived.

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.

I can't read music and I'm crap at learning lyrics. Especially since the accident I have memory problems. I can't remember words, names, places.

She had awakened something in him that had slumbered far too long. Not only did he feel passion, he felt the return of hope.

When we have no room for the Word of God in our lives we have no room for success.

Their brilliant audio expert, who is a marine biologist, should really be looking after Flipper