I think it's too easy to recount your unhappy memories when you write about yourself. You bask in your own innocence. You revere your grief. You arrange your angers at their most becoming angles.

What's often not acknowledged about depression is how much anger is in it.

Noir is a court of human relations, and some crimes are beyond legal restitution.

I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.

When we mediate, we are raising the kundalini through focus, through concentration. There is a metaphysical astral process that's taking place.

It's better sometimes when we don't get to touch our dreams.

I don't pray enough, but I pray more now. Every morning at six o'clock have a half hour of meditation before the Blessed Sacrament. I pray with others too.

The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.

I don't make the stereotypes, I just see them.

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.

I would not let myself be intimidated by Yahya Khan, his methods had led us to disaster.