The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.

Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.

Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.

The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.

I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.

The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.

To follow Jesus doesn't remove us from the stuff of life. It is not resolution. It is tension and journey.

Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.

Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world.

Although the point of blogging is that it doesn't pay, I often steal from my blog for paid publication. I've based several magazine essays on blog posts, as well as an entire book.

There is no rivalry between Google and traditional advertising.

A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.