I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward.

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn't look at my face once. I was humiliated.

My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist.

I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.

I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.

I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were long days. But what the hell, it was Calvin Klein.

I'd gone to Manhattan to become a model.

It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful.

I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.

I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity.

I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.

The challenge for mindfulness is to be present for your experience as it is rather than immediately jumping in to change it or try to force it to be different.

Genius is expansive irresistible and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you no cords can confine it.

Wisdom is the principal thing therefore get wisdom and with all thy getting get understanding.

Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.

Writers and filmmakers have this age-old relationship to the material.

Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.

As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs.

Such as every man is inwardly so he judgeth outwardly.

Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to get away.