It's not easy getting old, you know. Things become a lot less clear.

As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources.

Can we really be whoever we want to be, now that we’ve collected all that we are?

I love being a struggling artist; it makes me feel very alive.

You have to smile, if you expect anybody to smile back.

I usually write in my underwear, with a space heater running full blast, and three dogs sleeping at me feet.

My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out.

I know I've lost my mind. But I'm not concerned, because it's the first thing I've lost in a long time that actually feels good.

I discovered John Fante when I was 17 years old - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy.

I really believe in challenging myself, pushing myself to new places.

You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when its gone, you have to look forward. You have to get in the van and keep driving on.

If you can't change your fate change your attitude.

I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.

It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.

I believe in the potential of all things possibly imagined that can be made into a reality.

I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.

I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.

When regulations on the housing industry are reasonable, the cost of housing goes down. Regulatory relief is needed to make housing more affordable to more Americans.

It's wonderful to win, but don't get cocky about it!

The edge of the world is always the next step when you're blind.