There's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.

Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.

Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.

The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.

Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.

They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

Following your dreams is better than being led by your fears.

I like my men like I like my roses . . . by the dozen.

We all have a Wonder Woman inside us.

When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me.

If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.

I've been things and seen places.

When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.

Loving is a journey with water and with stars, with smothered air and abrupt storms of flour: loving is a clash of lightning-bolts and two bodies defeated by a single drop of honey.

In every generation women have to be taught their place one more time. The subordination of women is never accomplished for once and for all.

If you haven't met Satan face to face, it's because you are running in the same direction.