I both love and am terrified by Greg Van Eekhout's vision of Los Angeles. I already want to go back.

Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.

If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.

I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head.

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.

I thought I saw him once, but it turned out to be a yeti

There's a difference between the fact that the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level, and the fact that life is unfair because people are actively making it so.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

Christianity is a fine religion and I wish more Christians practiced it.

Don’t discount that part of who he was just because you didn’t know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.

People believe what they are told.

The wiseman knows and questions but what the fool believes he sees.

The devil will use fear, pride, jealousy, time wasters, hurt, thoughts, disappointments to get us to turn our eyes away from Jesus. Don't give him a moment in your life.

Always, every now and then, I had given her a hard time, just to keep her in line. Every once in a while a woman seems to need, in fact wants this too.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

Indeed we do have an entitlement problem: some feel so entitled to power & wealth that they're willing to undermine our economy and our democracy.

Make us laugh and you can pick all pockets.

Don't be afraid of losing a little power in daily associations. People who seek power and knowledge aren't misers. They aren't afraid. That is paranoid.

You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.

My appetite comes to me while eating.