In reading we live hundreds lives, in writing we live thousands of lives.

It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.

The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.

Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you'll call me.

Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world

This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.

The best things in life are often the ones hardest to get. Yet they are also the ones that are the easiest to find, usually right in front of your face.

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?

The thing about a good podcast is you have to have a good host. If you don't have a compelling host then you have nothing.

Mysticism is for all, not just for a few special people.

To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God.

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

This is what I mean by becoming religious: no guilt, no ego, no trip of any kind...just being herenow...being with the trees and the birds and the rivers and the mountains and the stars.

We are taught to take the bread into our bodies as proof of Jesus's body.

It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.

Who says that my dreams have to just stay my dreams?