I've got whole years of unfortunate clothing in '80s.

I don't like being lied to.

I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.

I did have Skidz overalls. Remember Skidz, those baggy plaid pants that look like pajamas? So I did rock overalls, but not in purple velvet. I couldn't find those.

You have your vision and you need to be focused, but you have to listen. I never felt a sense that the wheels were going to come off because we're all friends and family. It was all good.

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

I didn't win prom king. By that point, I'd quit sports except for soccer, so I was really just a theater guy. I totally lost to the captain of the football team.

You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone.

I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.

Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there like Kandinsky or Jackson Pollock and go "Yep, that's art." That's okay.

For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...

Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.

There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.

When I think about the stuff I turned down it's kind of insane.

Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?

There is no help from without, only from within.

I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government.

[W]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.

I think that it is always hard to find two voices that fit together well.