The modern media environment is so overrun with bullshit and static and people trying to sell you stupid crap. It makes you want to bite yourself.

I can only imagine the quiet horror that people must endure when they meet me in person.

David Cristofanos debut novel captures the essence of the human spirit, and delivers a story that is simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking.

For writers, so much is done in isolation. It can be easy to feel detached, or to get a little lost along the way.

I can think of plenty of writers whose work I revere and whose lives I know little about.

To do my job well, I have to be a good listener. The listening is so much more important than the talking.

People love honesty. Honesty is medicinal, I think. It makes people feel less lonely in the world.

I'm a radio nerd. I've loved radio since I was a kid. I'm a huge Howard Stern fan.

Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing has to be the foundation.

I have way too much going on, as usual, but fortunately it's all good stuff. I'm not complaining.

Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

You don't need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.

I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful.

Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.

Pulling yourself up again is the most important part of your life. Getting out of the bottom that you put everything into - yourself!

I am a great football player. I had my own club when I was 14 years old. Football is in my blood, and I have been a fan of Fulham for the last 30 years.

When speed gets in the blood, one must drive to live.

I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.