Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friends call it.

And that phrase - 'sleeping like a baby.' Some blonde said it blithely on the subway the other day. I wanted to lie down next to her and scream for five hours in her ear.

You think you want the blue skies, the open road, but really you want the tunnel, you want to know how the story ends.

But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.

One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, Right. Now I understand how this is done.

The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out.

A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say.

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.

The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind. (Fun fact.)

These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs.

Although it may be unused, the front door continues to appeal to our sense arrival. Call it the ceremony of coming home.

Ideas combined with courage can change the world.

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest.

The spiritual process is always individual. You may sit in a group, but only the individual can evolve, only the individual can liberate himself.

In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.

Every piece of music I have composed reminds me of a different time in my life.

One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

I'm very sensual and very rhythm-oriented and into poetry. Women can feel that.

We have to have more consideration for people who have lesser means than we do. It is a problem of survival.