That's where I live, a junkyard in a neighborhood of junkyards. We have three tractors from the 1940s and '50s, several old pickup trucks, and a pile of scrap metal.

Donkeys are the most misunderstood and abused animals around the world.

I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.

I worked probably fewer jobs than most people, or fewer real soul-killing jobs than other people. I've been a typist, a typesetter, a keyliner, cappuccino-maker. I think I've been pretty lucky.

My donkeys are Jack and Don Quixote. They're very smart, very cautious. Much of what people consider stubbornness in donkeys is actually cautiousness.

As a writer, I can live somewhat independently, occupying nooks and crannies and finding meaning there. I can even live in my mind a good portion of most days.

A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.

I have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training.

Time is never wasted coming to an old man bar.

I grew up with donkeys, as well as horses, but I'm more interested in donkeys.

Where I live you're not supposed to shoot a firearm within a quarter mile of a dwelling.

All the stars in the sky cannot worth as much as yours only because it belongs to you.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments.

Whatever the emotion is, I have learned over the years to give it space, which is also why I love acting.

Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.

We must often remember what Christ said, that not he who begins, but he that perseveres to the end, shall be saved.

Freedom to really prioritize and really zone into what really matters which is the parent-child connection.

We can make our houses homes and our homes heavens.

I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.

At once, good night- Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.