I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

I come from very common stock, and I've always been uncomfortable with pretension and all the forms it can take, including disingenuous broadcasting.

You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.

That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference.

In the America I see from here, anything is possible - especially the impossible.

Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers.

Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.

Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it.

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Blackberry Smoke is my favorite band!

I want to be heavily tied to a city that I write for every week, that knows my stuff and I can interact with.

A master lives in the world of transformation, not the world of loss and gain.

I like to make people think.

As an entrepreneur making decisions for your company, always go back to your first principles of what's important to you and why you started in the first place.

If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

There is one element that is worth its weight in gold and that is LOYALTY. It will cover a multitude of weaknesses.

If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.