My most popular blogs end up being the ones where I talk about being a dad.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

We must stop seeing our anointed men and women of God as Seers, magic workers, Herbalist and native doctors.

You're gonna have to hold on tight, because this rodeo is just getting started.

Everything holds its breath except spring. She burts through as strong as ever.

If we don't manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew.

America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.

Stress, in addition to being itself, was also the cause of itself, and the result of itself.

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

There are some people who watch NASCAR for the highly skilled driving - but most people watch it for the crashes.

He wants to put his story next to hers.

Having a phobia has changed me.