Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.

Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.

Fear is just another word for ignorance.