Reading, LIKE writing, is a creative act. If readers only BRING a NARROW range of themselves to the BOOK, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

I am more AFRAID of those who are TERRIFIED of the DEVIL than I am of the devil himself.

I feel like I've never had a home, you KNOW? I feel related to the COUNTRY, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of NOSTALGIA for a PLACE, a place where you can reckon with yourself.

I try to be PASSIONATE about EVERY aspect of my life, how I love my WIFE, how I serve my wife, how I serve God. In the same way, I try to be passionate about football. I try to serve my coaches with PASSION. I try to serve my TEAMMATES with passion. I try to serve God, through football, with passion.

It is the GREATEST of all MISTAKES to do NOTHING because you can only do LITTLE - do what you can.

My THING is, I'm just way too harsh. It's an enormous impediment, and that's just the truth of it. It doesn't MAKE me any better, make me any worse, it certainly isn't more valorous. I have a character defect, man.

In ORDER to attain the IMPOSSIBLE, one MUST ATTEMPT the ABSURD.

I LIVE in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as POWERFUL: the right not to READ it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to OFFEND PEOPLE.

It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been THREE FEET off the GROUND since I made that first record.