The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the world.

It's almost two societies, the living and the dead, and you live with them both.

Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance.

A child, when it begins to speak, learns what it is that it knows.

Living simply makes loving simple.

Today's dreams create tomorrow’s hope. So act today and hope for the best.

Give preference to things of the greatest lasting value.

Jody Hill, who I created 'Eastbound And Down' and 'Fist Foot Way' with, was my best man at my wedding.

And indeed we believe you [God] to be something than which a greater cannot be conceived.

Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.

Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, "Oh, that's me."

You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

Computers operate on simple principles that can be easily understood by anybody with some common sense, a little imagination, and an IQ of 750.

This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it.