Do I Stank or was it already Stanky in Here?

At the end of the day the only thing that stays are your words. They linger while you disappear. Hanging in the air like they're on a clothesline, oh how I wish I could let them go.

In the struggle for life, a taste for truth is a luxury--or else a disability.

I know for a stretch, at least nine years, I was one of the best lead-off hitters in baseball

I think the movie business is in trouble. It's all movies that you've seen before. Everything's a remake; they want things that are familiar rather than things that surprise you.

This is probably very obvious but I feel very lonely. I miss the person I want to be with the most.

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.

Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins.

It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just to think of it.

Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.