Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He's probably one of the few people that have survived Los Angeles as a human being.

The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

You see, I needed to go to Hell.

I think Elvis Presley will never be solved

The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer.

Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance.

People think they're gonna make a living off poetry. Ten years ago, maybe a couple of people did. Right now, no one, I don't think.

I don't have a college degree.

For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.

Be yourself. Don't worry about what other people are thinking of you, because they're probably feeling the same kind of scared, horrible feelings that everyone does.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

Love is an all powerful, endless, mysterious, miraculous, primordial, attractive force that flows from one heart to another to unfold the beauty of life.

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.

The QB is going to be judged, fair or unfair, on success in the playoffs. You remember QBs who have won 3 or 4 Super Bowls

We may switch presidents, but we're just going to switch legs and keep on marching.

If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

I learn things late-and only the hard way.

Let the past not be forgotten. Let the lessons not be in vain.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.