It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.

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

Dictionaries stop where the heart starts.

The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.

In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.

I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.

Prosperity in a society is the accumulation of solutions to human problems.

The real question is: How much truth can I stand?

Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.

I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

Oh, well, I'd like to have commercial success. I guess.