Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.

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

The secret to living is loving.

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!

If you build your faith with the limitations as the foundation, you tend to obstruct the realization of your goals easily.

Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. To last as long as I did with the skills I had, with the numbers I produced, was a triumph of the human spirit.

I'm focusing on my family, raising my family, and staying blessed.

You're only human. Let's break free of this gravity of judgment And fly high on the wings of forgiveness.

He didn't give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity.

Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet.

Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious.