I know I've lost my mind. But I'm not concerned, because it's the first thing I've lost in a long time that actually feels good.

As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources.

Can we really be whoever we want to be, now that we’ve collected all that we are?

I love being a struggling artist; it makes me feel very alive.

You have to smile, if you expect anybody to smile back.

I usually write in my underwear, with a space heater running full blast, and three dogs sleeping at me feet.

My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out.

I discovered John Fante when I was 17 years old - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy.

I really believe in challenging myself, pushing myself to new places.

You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when its gone, you have to look forward. You have to get in the van and keep driving on.

The jocks that used to stuff me into a locker when I was a punk rocker are my best buddies now.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

I Believe When People Go To Hell, They Relive Their Worst Life Experience, Over And Over Again.

There was a thing on Facebook that said, 'Describe George Clooney's wedding in three words, ' and my answer was, 'Not invited again.'

A Composition on the Piano

The God who has the whole world in his hands has grace for the whole world in his heart.

On the road to truth, only those who do not know what tiredness and fear means reach the truth!

To exercise is human; not to is divine.

Bachelor parties are designed for those who are sad to see the passing of their single days. I couldn’t be more eager to have mine behind me. So there’s really no point.

[Jerome David] Salinger was really taken to the cleaners by nasty critics in his day. I think Joan Didion was one of the people who attacked him in a very unfair way.

It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.