It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.

Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.

Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.

The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.

Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.

They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

Prayer and faith are bound together. Faith is the inspiration for prayer, and prayer is the expression of that faith.

Summer had a way of being full of fun and things to do and plenty of times of doing nothing and feeling bored.

When she would walk, it was like rhythm. The guys' heads would bounce, but I wouldn't look because I was married.

Secrets stolen from deep inside....the drum beats out of time

I do not like abortions. I will do everything in my power to restrict abortion.

Someday you will look back on all the awful stuff that's happening to you, and fondly smile. Doesn't say much about the future, does it?

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.