Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.

Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.

All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.

One person's garbage is another person's commodity.

Even coal shimmers in the light

It is hard to convince people of this, but oatmeal truly is miraculous. It gives you an amazing amount of energy, like cocaine.

Leave it to a vampire to think a healthy guy in his late thirties or early forties was on his deathbed.

The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

Professional Southerners sicken me.

It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.

I'm layering away: sauce, noodles, I belong to you, cheese, sauce, my heart is yours, noodles, cheese, I hear your soul in your music, cheese, cheese, CHEESE.

I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.

The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer.