I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival

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

We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

What about the future?" "We'll talk about the future when it gets here.

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

When you think about an apple, you also think about the opposite of an apple.

First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.

All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them.

We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want to live.