By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place. I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family. But no one is offering any clear information.

Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart.

On a good day I write, all day.

There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.

If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.

Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.

Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float?

The Christian is to take his place in society with moral courage to stand up for that which is right, just, and honorable.

A man who doubts himself shouldn't have to try too hard for too long, not until he's seasoned.

When you pray with this pipe, you pray for and with everything.

In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity.

Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

Squat 300 times a day, you’re going to give birth quickly.

Dare to believe SOMETHING AMAZING is going to happen in your life. When you believe, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.

Potentially, America is really the greatest, but it's not yet, I don't think. It's too much like an old-fashioned empire, waving the stick and dropping too many bombs on too many people.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.