It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped Loving Her Today]. Fiction now is so experiential.

I just realized that I never look at a painting and ask, 'Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?' It’s just a painting.

Writing should be like skirts. Long enough to cover what it needs to cover and short enough to maintain interest.

Samuel Clemens isn't Mark Twain. Mark Twain is Mark Twain. He doesn't become the thing until he creates himself.

I have no interest in being a trained ballerina. People should dance how they want to dance. I want to be the funky chicken.

We like something because someone else liked it.

The things that I have loved have always been those extremes where there has been some kind of apocalypse in the person's life, and they come out unscathed or scathed.

So much of our culture is bought and manufactured - not to say great art can't come out of that. Some art is really amazing that is manufactured and sold, like action movies and stuff.

I guess the things I have always loved are from people who were just being themselves. They were doing these things because they couldn't do it any other way. It was for them.

I think maybe it's my personality. People don't like my face.

It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, rather than making music or making stories. It's the strangest thing.

Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash.

Do not let your life, ministry or organization go faster than your resources.

You will never reach your destination if you stop & throw stones at every dog that barks...Better keep biscuits & Move on.

When you see someone who has turned his passion into a profit, ask yourself, ‘Why not me?

Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.

If I had a Salvador Dali painting, I would cuddle it to sleep.

I put myself in the hands of Christ, who is the true leader of the church.

I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.

If you ain't trying to cheat a little, you ain't likely to win much.

Get up early in the morning before everybody has breathed up all the good air.