It's very hard to get pretentious about beer. You can become knowledgeable and start to talk with a highfalutin' vocabulary. But you can only go so far with beer, and I've always liked that.

We brewers don't make beer, we just get all the ingredients together and the beer makes itself.

Beer does not make itself properly by itself. It takes an element of mystery and of things that no one can understand.

I am so busy being kind today that I have no time to complain.

I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.

I'm not very good at practice. But if you tell yourself you love the hole and love hitting it on the fairway, it's a big difference.

I'm grateful for all the attention because it validates I'm doing something.

I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.

I was bored at school and bored in a lot of the kitchens. It seemed like all I was doing was putting things into saute pans.

I never thought I'd ever do a pirate bar, to be honest with you.

We're all looking for something, something to be.