Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.

The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.

I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite - one little drip of mud and grit at a time.

But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man.

It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting philosophical exercise, but also curiously pointless, since evil and death happened, regardless of the why and the how and what-it-meant.

I'll take the shooting. I'm used to that. I've been shot a few times in the past, and I guess I can stand it, again.

Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school, TV, and loading the dishwasher after dinner.