If I can be writing, I can take a certain amount of control when so much around me is upsetting.

I'd rather be a born-once hog than a born-again Christian any day.

That’s the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.

I feel at times that I'm making up these little people and I've lost my mind.

If it ran, a Bean would shoot it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it.

If it ran, a Bean would eat it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it.

None can reply - all seems eternal now. The wilderness has a mysterious tongue, which teaches awful doubt.

The biggest power play in the world is understanding your own power and then unleashing it to reach your goals and follow your dreams.

With bated breath we wait for the scent of perfection, accompanied by the freshness of love.

No toys in the fish tank

'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person.

Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.

Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world's population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror.

With all due respect to Taylor Lautner and his 18-pack abs, my werewolf is going to be 100 times cooler!

You have to imagine a waiting that is not impatient because it is timeless.

A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.