I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.

I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

We only dream of images we already have inside of us.

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.

Keep faith, love and hope in your heart.

Back then, he'd have to leave at the end of August for the start of school, so the week before Labor Day became it's own tiny season of gloom, like a hundred Sunday nights crowded together.

I used to sleep the sleep of someone who knew she was loved. Now, I didn't.

To act as though we have hope is to keep hope alive

Find out who you really are, then accept who you are. Fight for your life every day to be who you are.

Men are motivated when they feel needed while women are motivated when they feel cherished.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.