Poverty has a way of taking the edge off principles. Hunger can blunt them altogether.

It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.

A man dreams of a miracle and wakes up to loaves of bread.

Some things stayed secrets even when you told them.

Me and my mom made a deal that if something would happen to help me get my start in music, I could get out of college.

Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.

An 'OMG' of mine would probably be speaking on stage and performing in front of thousands of people!

The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

Nutritional excellence is the only real fountain of youth.

It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.