All of us, at some point in life, choose our cliché.

A waft of sweet hash drifted by, and I wanted to float after it like Wimpy levitating at the scent of a hamburger.

I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally easier than life.

It's not like I was an alkie or anything. Alcohol is for cleaning needles

I don't really know how to do much else besides write.

I kept getting high to kill my shame at the fact that I kept getting high.

To me, God is like this happy bus driver.

In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.

I've always wanted to be a guy with a rec room.

You need an entire drama to construct your life around to avoid living it.

This is what I think: If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write it.

As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future --a terrible festival of dead leaves.

No terms, no conditions, no promises, no commitment, and no institution—but only another example of what happens when law and politics attempt to regulate a religious institution.

In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal.

Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer.

Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.

Part of company culture is path-dependent. It’s the lessons you learn along the way.

Woman's mind Oft' shifts her passions, like th'inconstant wind; Sudden she rages, like the troubled main, Now sinks the storm, and all is calm again.

What shall we do about the Abortion Bill?" A: "Pay it!

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.