I really recommend that anyone who wants to write have a very physical hobby that takes you away from books and criticism, because it teaches you, it informs you, and it changes your writing.

Sleep is just a good idea. I bow to the god caffeine.

Mothers are only human, you turn it over to God and then you just wing it.

Highway One, Antarctica is a wonderful debut by a writer with razor-sharp insights to the human condition. Justin Herrmann is a voice I hope to hear more from, and soon. Excellent collection.

It’s my belief that animals can help a human being travel to the wounds of childhood. The best part is, once you go there, you can fix things. Get on with life.

Juniper laughed for real, but one of those fake smiles he considered a plague of the Caucasian race followed. If you’re sad, be sad, he wanted to say.

In any evolutionary process even in the arts the search for novelty becomes corrupting.

A kindness is never wasted

Listen to advice, but follow your heart.

The type of pop culture that is honestly very moving and powerful to me is [when artists] do their homework. They make it real.

Some people think they can; some think they can't. They are probably both right.

Straightaway the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God.

I always had a weight issue since I was a young kid.

Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.

Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.

A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately.