If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.

Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart.

On a good day I write, all day.

By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place. I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family. But no one is offering any clear information.

There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.

Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.

Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float?

When it comes to getting a job or client, congruent value is aligning the employer's need with your value add.

When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

Today we charge George Zimmerman with murder in the second-degree.

I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.

Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.

Everyone on the Internet is sad. Why else would they be on the Internet?

Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus - it's simply learning how to focus.

You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it's going to be spent.

Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure understated.