To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.

Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.

I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.

Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.

Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button.

Prayer:  The act of falling to your knees in pleading fashion, seeking help from a greater power than all else to have failed you previously.

The Angeles air was quiet, and for a while I laid still, listening to the sound of Maxon breathing.

And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua.

The environment is not as 'cheap as chips', it's priceless and we all have a part to play in protecting it

I do bookstore signings, and it seems to me that I get a variety of men and women, more women than I'd expect, and grown-ups among my readers.

I'm constantly thinking about trying to piece together collaborators... All disciplines can be narrow.

Grief is like sinking, like being buried.

Excuse my French, everybody in America, but I am pissed.

Life is...the moments that take your breath away.