I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late 70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love that period of recording.

I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.

I like stuff that sounds big and full and makes your head trip and your body react.

The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.

In my opinion, questions that are based on something real ought to be settled by something real without all this damned lazy miserable drifting

I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.

Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not just for entertaining us, although that would be enough.

Ours is a sovereign nation Bows to no foreign will But whenever they cough in Washington They spit on Parliament Hill.

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

We must trust God with what we can't control.

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought?

Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate... It's what he's done every day in state government.

We can only learn so much and live.