My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade.

Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.

The dream we are living has absolutely no purpose other than our awakening.

I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else.

The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement.

The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.

Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening.

Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it.

The thing to remember about Phuket is it's very beach-oriented and relaxed. The trendiest beach is Koh Sirey, which is full of groovy places to have a cocktail and watch the sun go down.

People are always surprised at what a nice guy I am.

If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.

There is tremendous trauma in the betrayal caused by a perpetual liar as they repeatedly commit psychological abuse.

Misery loves company, as someone unbearably trite said once.

Poetry has saved me on occasions when people couldn't.

Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation.

Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself

Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or that if it is dying it will return to life, what with a little sun and the usual encouragement.

...now Eli was my new neighbor. Which was fine with me because I sucked at Math. Math and I were not on speaking terms.