I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I had become had to die.

I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.

I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure.

Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape.

Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing.

I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves.

Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane.

After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

My mother was tickled and I think kind of proud when my father got hit on my an attractive middle-aged Asian lady who hadn't noticed he was with his family. He was certainly pleased about it.

I didn't flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and hard about it.

It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.

It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

This is the day which the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them

It may seem unrealistic to think we can ever become free from hatred, but Buddhists have systematic methods for gradually developing a tolerance powerful enough to give such freedom.

You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.

Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a keyboard.

Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same.

Last Vegas is a counterfeit version of the New Jerusalem. And it shares something of the glorious reality that it mocks.

I care more about my country than I do about a 20-year-old pledge.