I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young, and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.

Labor for a lot of people has a negative connotation. But not for me. I always want to be working.

I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that are real and I know of and going from there.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one.

You're not really going to know what a place is like 'til you've lived there a few years - you sort of just have to go with your gut.

Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people "crazy," we exclude them from our circle.