Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.

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.

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

There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.

Italy has been made

When you sell on price, you are a commodity. When you sell on value, you are a resource.

Why won't you run in the rain and play, let the tears splash all over you?

I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.

There were nameless horrors abroad; and no matter how little one might be able to get at them, one ought tp stand prepared for any sort of action at any time.

No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.

It's a culmination of your life of surfing when you turn and paddle in at Mavericks.

When you're scared you can either give in to the panic and let your mind fall apart, or you can take charge of your mind and think brave.

The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being.

It's not what you like but what you are like that's important.