Guns are like men—only useful for a little while. They can go off at a moment's notice when you don't want them to and they make a lot of damn fool noise doing it.

Regrets will eat a man up. My pa told me that. Said you should always try to make your peace when you can, 'cause no man knows what the Lord has in store for us tomorrow.

You cannot do anything with knowledge unless you know where it stops, and the costs of using it.

How quickly people can forget you, until they want something from u" and when they are done with you, you are not even a stranger but an invisible person who doesn't even exist.

Gonzaga was the kind of place you’d not even think about loving until you’d left it for a couple of years.

My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.

What you collect says so much about who you are.

Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.

A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.

I love myself, therefore, I behave in a loving way to all people for I know that that which I give out returns to me multiplied.

There's a moment when you say, "Okay, I'm not going to become a dancer. I'm not going to become a painter." So in a sense, I ended up writing about those big conflicts that I felt.

The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.