The only other people who have had experiences similar to those of this man were locked up inside institutions for the criminally insane. The difference is, this guy gets business cards.

My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.

This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on.

I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.

There's a lot about being "A Writer" that has nothing to do with writing. That's one thing I've discovered. You've got to meet with the sales force, and you've got to have all these luncheons, and be gracious, and you've got to give a lot of presentations and you've got to give a lot of speeches, and you've got to be on tour.

[Christmas] holidays are a heavy, heavy time. We make light of them with our red and green and our stockings and candy canes, but people think heavy thoughts over the holidays because that's when you're thinking about family. Are we close? Or are we not as close as other people?

When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.