I usually tame my off-kilter sense of humor for novels.

I don't really get romance. Bring me fish or moose, not flowers.

Once your writing is out there, you can't control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your truth.

I was born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly Parton: January 19. I am absolutely certain that this affects my writing in some way.

Autumn. Pretty leaves, pumpkin pie and sweaters. Perfect weather for reading. Winter is great but I hate shoveling.

I think we learn slowly as a group, but we learn. The ozone layer is still there.

I find myself moved by social justice issues. I'm not sure where that will lead me. I'm willing to nurture it.

We can be the new brand of self-extincting dinosaurs or we can evolve.

Our ability to turn off empathy for specific kinds of humans and then use faulty logic to justify our beliefs is messily sociopathic.

I don't think anyone's normal.

In general, I'm careful when I'm dealing with subjects of deep cultural importance and write with abandon when I'm dealing with issues of personal dysfunction.

The soul was the first temple

Stop thinking, and end your problems.

Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos.

Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite.

As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before.

I think Donald Trump simply needs to make himself look less bigoted, less dangerous, more comfortable to people.

We know. We've seen it all before.

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties.

What are the origins of dressage? Did just, one day, some young horse say to his dad, 'Dad, I don't want to charge into battle...I just wanna dance'?

One poll shows that by 61 percent to 29 percent Americans under 40 say that Social Security needs to be fixed.