If you want the rainbow, then you must have the rain.

Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.

I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Los Angeles is a great place. Where else can you smell the air and see it coming at you at the same time.

If you’re comparing the badness of two words and you won’t even say one of them [the n-word], that’s the worse word.

Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, though I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.

You'd think when you saw my old MTV stuff that I was always drunk and high and all that stuff. I wasn't.

Good luck, little Wanderer, good luck. How I wish you didn't need it.

We need to learn how to love each other. If we cannot do that, then we need to learn to respect one another. If we can't manage to do that, then we must learn to tolerate each other.