Can we really be whoever we want to be, now that we’ve collected all that we are?

As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources.

I love being a struggling artist; it makes me feel very alive.

You have to smile, if you expect anybody to smile back.

I usually write in my underwear, with a space heater running full blast, and three dogs sleeping at me feet.

My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out.

I know I've lost my mind. But I'm not concerned, because it's the first thing I've lost in a long time that actually feels good.

I discovered John Fante when I was 17 years old - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy.

I really believe in challenging myself, pushing myself to new places.

You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when its gone, you have to look forward. You have to get in the van and keep driving on.

The jocks that used to stuff me into a locker when I was a punk rocker are my best buddies now.

Human efforts to avoid or overcome death are always doomed to disappointment.

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

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Humans were so ignorant, taking for granted what they received from each other, never knowing the energy they passed between themselves.

Events circumstances etc. have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.

What I would say is I've only had one injury in my NBA career, that was probably was because my core wasn't strong enough, when I had a stress fracture in my back.

As a kid, a little kid I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.

You must be completely awake in the present to enjoy the tea.

Everything I do is always scrutinised. But that's all I'll say about that.