I'll never stop caring. But the thing about caring is, it's inconvenient. Sometimes you've got to give when it makes no sense to at all. Sometimes you've got to give until it hurts.

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 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.

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.

Without money and without connections- I have failed you!

Creativity is infused with an inner cohesion and comes from a vision of uniqueness.

You’re not alone. You’re never alone. Use creativity to change what world you’re in at this moment.

When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures's will.

When I'm feeling a little empty in the head, I like to go see movies or read to loosen things up there.

May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.