For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.

The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He's probably one of the few people that have survived Los Angeles as a human being.

You see, I needed to go to Hell.

I think Elvis Presley will never be solved

The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer.

Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance.

People think they're gonna make a living off poetry. Ten years ago, maybe a couple of people did. Right now, no one, I don't think.

I don't have a college degree.

A person begins to live a moral life when they cease asking what life will provide them and begins to determine what he or she expects from oneself.

Jesus Christ is my savior, not the government.

Reveal your gift and make it perfect

Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way I am achieving my dreams.

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.

Pretty is smarter than you think

Those who advice the ruler on the Way, do not want the world subdued with weapons.

But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.

Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.