Being a good writer doesn’t make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.

End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.

The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, 'Lo, on this day I shall forever put away childish things and begin clipping coupons to go to Wal-Mart.'

Necessity is a mother.

The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, "Lo, on this day I shall forever put away childish things and begin clipping coupons to go to Wal-Mart.

I now inhabit a life I don't deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon

What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?

Still, I could find no good reason for not going. So I decided to go.

Powerlessness is an excruciating pain

When I contemplate life as well as death, I am discovering what really matters to me now.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Wow, just imagine missing school on the day when they were learning blue. You'd spend the rest of your life wondering what color the sky is.

I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

I give them experiments and they respond with speeches.