Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

The world is a strange and wonderful place.

Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.

Art is about paying attention.

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

It's good to take a longer view and think, what would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?

In the light, we shine brightly.

Delighting in the Lord alters the desires.

What is tolerance? It is a necessary consequence of humanity. We are all fallible, let us then pardon each other's follies. This is the first principle of natural right.

He was like a child with haemophilia: every contact drew blood.

I always make the joke that I go home, to one of my homes, to go and do laundry so I can go on the road again.

The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

Retirement: a brand new beginning! How wonderful!

I think my favorite for music and spirit is Ray Gomez.

Stories are like relics, part of an undiscovered preexisting world. The writer's job is to use the tools in his or her toolbox to get as much of each one out of the ground intact as possible.

Break in the hands of God, He'll unbreak you. Break in the hands of people, you'll remain forever broken. Break to no one, your heart will remain hard.