... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty.

There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.

Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.

The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

When in doubt, look intelligent.

A man can't eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul.

My ability to keep cool in a crisis is based entirely on not knowing all the facts.