I had this great idea: I should get a job. Freelancing came with freedom, but maybe what I required was a cage.

That is true strength. To want what you have, and not what someone else is holding.

I had two speeds, which often varied with my blood alcohol level: fine with whatever, and never, ever satisfied. Where was the balance between these two?

It wasn't fair that my friends could stay at Captain Morgan's pirate ship party while I was drop-kicked into a basement with homeless people chanting the Serenity Prayer.

I understood drinking to be the gasoline of all adventure.

Moving a pile of bricks from one side of the room to the other requires strength. Time, discipline, patience.

Morning came in through the blinds cutting everything into ribbons.

Ish #109 "If MapQuest says make a right, go straight. You'll get there quicker.

...our free will could convert a curse into a blessing or a blessing into a curse...To transform a crisis into an opportunity was true wisdom

Revealed religion has no weight with me.

You couldn't be a racist and live in L.A.; you'd be exhausted.

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

Choice is the engine of our evolution ... if you choose unconsciously, you will evolve unconsciously. If you choose consciously, you will evolve consciously

The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.

Anytime you take a book and make it into a movie, you're going to have people who have their version of it in their minds and whatnot. You can't please everybody.

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare