A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give.

The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Maybe that's why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall down a lot and bleed a lot before you learn that one simple lesson. You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.