Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn’t know you needed transforming.

A waft of sweet hash drifted by, and I wanted to float after it like Wimpy levitating at the scent of a hamburger.

I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally easier than life.

All of us, at some point in life, choose our cliché.

It's not like I was an alkie or anything. Alcohol is for cleaning needles

I don't really know how to do much else besides write.

I kept getting high to kill my shame at the fact that I kept getting high.

To me, God is like this happy bus driver.

In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.

I've always wanted to be a guy with a rec room.

You need an entire drama to construct your life around to avoid living it.

No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they?No. It's never like what you expected.Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?

A wise man does not give quick answers to complex questions – he observes, analyzes and contemplates.

However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels...

Women need to know that not all guys are going to hurt them the way that the guy did before they started dating me. I know guys I wouldn't go out with.

It’s just life. You can’t beat life.

I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.

Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us.

I'm the most low-maintenance person on the road.

The sky is no bigger than the mouth of the well.

I've always been quiet and kind of shy. I'm sociable, but I would probably migrate to a corner.