I know how to become a top 5 teamJust play Texas A&M.

We will never be happy until we make God the source of our fulfillment and the answer to our longings. He is the only one who should have power over our souls.

Imagination may be the most essential, uniquely human capacity - creating both the dead-end crises of our time and the doorway through them.

No order, no pattern, just chaos. Lots of little universes separated by invisible screens . . .

I like to learn. That's an art and a science.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

I am forever a romantic. I try to bring that into my work. I try not to be fooled by romance. Or work.

I am a toggler. I always have three or four projects going, short stories alongside novels and essays. When one project is terrible, there's somewhere else hopeful to look.

I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for four or five hours a day. That's not the way you want to spend your teenage years.

Be yourself' is good advice, unless you notice that people are always excusing themselves and moving away from you. In that case, try being someone else!

It's not always the style of tattooing but the rather the subject matter that drives me. I love tattooing anything from mythology to comic book superheroes.