I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.

Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart.

On a good day I write, all day.

By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place. I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family. But no one is offering any clear information.

There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.

Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.

Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float?

A journey inward may end in defeatFor life as we know it was made by machines

Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.

People can relate to reading a book for the first time and the world starts to create, even without you prepping for it.

Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity.

I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se.

Love makes requests, not demands.

Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.

If cleanliness is next to godliness, surely our cats must go to heaven and sit on the arm of God's throne.

TV spots are short. If you can't hold folks' attention for 20 seconds before revealing the brand, find another line of work.