Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.

Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

Don't cry after my death, I won't know it.Love me when I am alive.

All of my most significant moments somehow involved music. It's like my life was a John Hughes film and somebody had to put together the perfect soundtrack.

Every action has a reaction, everything we do or say has an effect.

Net neutrality isn't a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.

A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.

Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.

Death can be successfully put out of mind for the simple reason that it is beyond human experience. Death is either the abstract concept of nonexistence or the emotion of fear.

Muffled lives explode in understatements.

Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow." - The Talmud

I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.