I'm not a gamer. But I am very aware of the escapism of drugs. In my mind those kind of do the same thing. They dull us to the aches and pains of our status quo.

No matter what we've done, no matter the disappointments and sullied blunders, today is the opportunity to do right by ourselves.

We have today and hopefully tomorrow to be the best version of ourselves.

My tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that.

I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful on the page.

I'm a semi-failed writer, but I'm a capital-F Failed musician.

I just thought it was important that people knew right from the jump that I've got problems. But in all seriousness, that's a huge part of my writing process.

Today is going to be free of the past. Today, the past can't hurt me.

In my life the right question is simply this: What can I do to be happy today?

Self-respect doesn't come naturally to me. I need to constantly remind myself and do the work to err on the side of self-respect, rather than self-punishment.

I struggle with staying clean every day, and what really keeps me from doing something stupid is my daughter.

God has made the provision for every man on earth to be equally endowed.

Be creative enough to dream, brave enough to try, persistent enough to succeed, and humble enough to thank those who helped you along the way.

Thing about boats is, you can always sell them if you don't like them. Can't sell kids.

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms.

Vision is nothing without a plan to execute it.

The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty.

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it's moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and the visual all together. I'm probably the trombone.