Writing does not numb, comfort, or soothe me. It does the opposite. It tends to excite me and reinscribe pain. It doesn't function as exorcism.

You're not defeated when you lose a battle.You are defeated when you give up the struggle

Pride is lacking in wisdom and not trusting Him (Proverbs 28:25-26).

It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.

My dad was very much a John Wayne kind of guy, but he was also a great guy, great sense of humor, a real dedicated dad. I don't think he ever missed a hockey game I was in.

A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances.

Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.

A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown, Who ponders this tremendous scene-- This whole experiment in green, As if it were his own!

We're Mexican not Mexican't!

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

We never let our people just go. (Joe) What are you? Wolfram and Hart? (Steele) Oh, no, sweetie, they just take your soul for service. We intend to take even more than that. (Tee)