The real worth of a person came from how he acted during the bad times. (John Fiske)

It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

You know what kind of person it takes to run for President? Not normal. They could start out okay, but by the time they reach that level they've sold their soul to the devil so many times and stomped the guts out of enough people that they are definitely not like you and me, not even close.

I'm tired of people screaming about price and forgetting about the content.

As my father wrote, one's courage, hope, and spirit can be severely tried by the happenstance of life. But as I learned on this Virginia mountain, so long as one never loses faith, it is impossible to ever truly be alone.