If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.

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.

Now what?” he finally asked.Téa came to stand in the doorway of her office. “Nowwhat, what? Hey, is that you, Cal?”“Affirmative.”Affirmative? Was that the cutest or what?

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

Pushers don't pay taxes.

The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.

A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

If you want to understand how a lion hunts, don't go to the zoo. Go to the jungle.

Have you ever noticed how people who wear camouflage gear really stand out in a crowd?

I do not believe in a personal connection to God; that's where it gets transcendental.

You will never be an inwardly religious and devout man unless you pass over in silence the shortcomings of your fellow men, and diligently examine your own weaknesses.

A policeman's lot is not a happy one