I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.

Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?

I'm only human, and I bleed when I fall down.

We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

Stormfur... You'll have to go on without me, brother. Save the Clan.

It can be easy to love all beings from a distance; it can be a great challenge when we have to live with them.

I think I have broken into the mainstream, and I think that may happen in a broader way, but I want to do it on my own terms, not become a standard producer.

I don"t feel like there are a tremendous amount of roles for the size I am.

It's wonderful to be alive and to walk on earth.

He is trying to decide which of two daydreams he will inhabit.

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.