I spent a majority of my life in Kansas City, so I am a Chiefs and Royals guy. I used to work for the Royals for like five years in the suites department and in the stadium club restaurant.

If you can't do anything about it, laugh like hell.

My brothers are my backbone. My parents are my oxygen. I can't live without them.

Enjoy the experience, don't just experience the experience

I think the future is whatever I'm willing to make it.

Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief.

If you wanna know the truth, you make or break my day. If you wanna know the truth, I wouldn't have it any other way.

It's amazing what a haircut and forgetting to shave will do.

I will never shy away from embarrassing myself for a good cause

I'd always wanted to grow my hair out. And now looking back on those photos I understand why I probably shouldn't have.

Life has a strange way of working itself out

What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering...

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.

Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

Look at television and how comparatively few minorities are out there.

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

Six foot six he stood on the ground He weighed two hundred and thirty-five pounds But I saw that giant of a man brought down To his knees by love

I don't want a government shutdown. I don't think anyone does.

The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away.

Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief.