He craved silences and solitude. He simply could not get lost in another person’s life.

How is the duration of a relationship relative to what those involved in it feel?

Losing someone you love is harder. One minute they're there, the next they're gone. There were times I wished they would rise up from the dead.

Have Fun, Be Safe, and Always Have FAITH

As a general rule. it's a comfort issue, literally and metaphorically. And intimacy issue. It's a big step, putting on foreign underwear. Like betrayal, or emigration.

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

In my fantasy I was always the savior. I would come to 'Peanuts' land and save everybody. Charlie Brown would fall madly in love with me. Peppermint Patty was so jealous.

The eyes of my eyes are opened.

It is vain to think that we choose, that our own energy, our own intellect will create the possibility of us experiencing a higher order of existence. Liberation is to know you are that.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

Of what import are brief, nameless lives . . . to Galactus?

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.