Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)

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

My brothers and sisters all sang, too, and they all have good voices.

Hard work is greater than lazy talent.

There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot.

To live is not to live for one's self; let us help one another.

Every word written is a victory against death.

You should never tell someone they have a nice dimple, because maybe they were shot in the face with a BB gun.

Being a good human being is good business.

When I talk about money. All you see is the struggle. When I tell ya, I'm livin' large, you tell me, its trouble.

I once believed in Jenner; I once believed in Pasteur. I believed in vaccination. I believed in vivisection. But I changed my views as the result of hard thinking.