I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.

If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.

I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent.

As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That’s about the most you can do, I think.

Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.

Cruising the Internet doesn't count as writing. Neither does answering e-mail. Before you check Twitter & FB and do other similar tasks that get in the way of writing, write first. (I really need to take my own advice here!)