To pretend to be calm is to be calm, in a way.

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

Let us learn to see the beauty of life. Let us learn to appreciate and forgive. This is when we will find peace everywhere.

A mind that establishes indifference is the mind that builds failure.

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

All the best secrets are told at night.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.

As long as I continue to breathe, as long as there's injustice in this world, I will use the voice that God has given me to speak against it.

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

You should be able to have happiness. If you don't have that, then you're not really bringing your whole self to the relationship.

Eggs give me protein after a good work out. The cheesier, the better!