Life is short, I have no time for drama.

Let me tell you something about my family. We're as thick as thieves and we protect each other 'til the end.

Love me or hate me, I always speak the truth.

You hang out with trash and you start to smell like garbage.

If I'm on a boat I will wave to every breathing thing I pass. If I'm not on a boat I try to avoid every breathing thing I pass.

I really love Norah Jones.

Life is about change, sometimes you just have to roll with the punches.

This country awakens so many memories, though each seems like some restless sparrow I know will flee any moment into the breeze.

My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.

They say don't believe your own hype, but if you don't why would anyone else? To be great you have to believe you can do great things.

Tense and nervous are not the words, though they are the words

I love theater. I grew up doing theater.

I left my Phillie at home, Do you have another? I wanna get blunted, my brother.

No man is hurt but by himself.

If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy.

When you're public, you're at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don't get rewarded for it.

The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal information we can have about him.