Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times

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

Our goals and objectives are supposed to be well planned out in our minds.

In a few years all our restless and angry hearts will be quiet in death, but those who come after us will live in the world which our sins have blighted or which our love of right has redeemed.

you only talk to yourself when you pray without believing and having faith in your prayers

Faith You have is small but it can change your life

I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.

Once your reputation's done/ You can live a life of fun

Obviously, some people are thick, and they're not gonna see what they don't want to see.

Where I live in Manhattan and where I work at ABC, people say conservative the way people say child molester.

In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.

I was in the beginning when [comic book superheroes] started, but not anymore. Now I expect it. I've gotten very used to it.