When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list.

It was always difficult to get cattle returned once a marriage was dissolved.

Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity.

WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.

Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me.

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.

Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)