If I go into a restaurant and the food sucks I feel so depressed I just want to carve it in my wrist with the butter knife.

I have like 10 different processes I go to. My favorite one is to just go to an obscure neighborhood I haven't been to in decades and just wander around.

I pre-screen restaurants because my objective is to never have a bad meal, and I get pretty close to that.

You can't write about a horrible restaurant - if it's a Ma & Pa restaurant no one wants to see you kick Ma & Pa in the chops.

If a restaurant fumbles once I don't have to hold it against them, anyone can have a bad night.

My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.

All leadership begins from inside a person and must be developed and grown as they grow into emerging and enduring leaders

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

If you make your decisions based on comfort, before long you will be uncomfortable.

When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite.

Hungry children are distracted children. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of our children performing well academically, including hunger.

Pretty sad. Pretty lonely. But that's how I prefer it? I quess? I guess. It's a good guess. It's the best quess ever.

It is hard to know what Sarah Palin means in Republican politics anymore.

I took whatever the devil offered me.

God is near you, is with you, is inside you.