Death has an energy. It is thick as sludge, heavy as iron, and pulls you down into yourself like an imploding building.

Sometimes I think that my best writing comes from exposing my fears and vulnerabilities and hoping that nobody notices it's about me.

Life is full of chances -- and those times when we each trust our own guts and have a terrific outcome reaffirms our ability to make good decisions.

My motto is: When in doubt, just keep lying. Even if you're terrible at it.

Dear Aspiring Author; Write with heart. Put that open, honest, bare soul on paper.

What kind of a man thinks it's appropriate to give his soon-to-be bride a lethal weapon for a wedding present?

Am I the only one who secretly hopes that the Curiosity rover will be swallowed up by a giant alien worm living just below Mars's surface?

And I was fairly certain that my strong-enough-for-King-Kong-but-made-for-a-woman deodorant had utterly failed. --Doom with a View

You’ve missed a lot of things. But mostly I think you’ve missed several opportunities to leave. Let me assist you to the door so that you won’t miss this next one.

Gilly Gilleshpee

Leadership is about taking people from a good place to a better place where they would not regret to be.

Its snaky acids kiss.It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults That kill, that kill, that kill.

Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Beware of seriousness: it is a form of stupidity

I love a good steak with a great glass of red wine. But for the TV watching, laying around doing nothing kinds of days, nothing beats a pepperoni pizza and chocolate Haagen Daas.

Art's whatever you choose to frame.

Life appears in a vast variety and innumerable succession of individual forms, since the most salient character of the universe is just that it ceaselessly gives birth to living individuals.

I used to think Twitter was a waste of time and sort of ran counter to my ability to be productive and to write and now Twitter feels like a really cool part of the creative experience.

I consider parenting skills, those skills that help children: (1) develop clear and important goals; and (2) figure out flexible and persistent ways of achieving their goals.