Your perception plays tricks when you are hoping for something.

I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.

Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.

One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

Give thanks to the earth for the hospitality and generosityShow gratitude for life, light and every little beauty.

For a dreamer, pain and pleasure are synonyms.

By observing your judging mind, you can avoid automatically buying into these negative judgments...This transforms your experience of stress by taking the terror and panic out of it.

Sometimes, you can hold a grudge for so long you forget why you were holding onto it. And before you know it, half a lifetime has gone by and all you’ve got is a empty fist and a lot of regret.

I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.

Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.

Only by being prepared for your death can you ever truly live.

I've had it where things didn't go well for me with movies or something that got canceled.

I'll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.

Well the planet I've got a chance to visit is Earth, and Earth's principal features are chaos and war. I think I'd be a fool to spend years here and never have a look.