Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone-- and maybe that needed to change.

He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.

I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company.

The thing that scares me is that some part of me understands where they're coming from. They took everything from us, you know? Why shouldn’t we be able to take it back if we have the power to?

If you're going to knock down my suggestion, you'd better have one to replace it.

And people like you are the reason we have middle fingers.

I used to dream about turning back time, about reclaiming the things I'd lost and the person I used to be.

He's just like a stallion. Wild and kicking on the outside, but a heart soft as satin on the inside. Just waiting for the right girl to break him in.

You get a good review, and it’s like crack. You need another hit. And another. And another. I know authors are like Tinkerbell and generally need applause to survive, but it’s a slippery slope.

—I don't want to lose you —Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?

The darkest minds never fade in the afterlight.

And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.

Nobody ever lived in the past.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.

I didn't want make art about the internet at all. It's a really hard subject to take on and I did not set out to do that. But, it was real and it was what was happening.

Waves, once they land on the beach, are not reversible.

It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.

Fresh off campus is the Birdman JR

I don'’t think there was one. I can'’t name one. Not because I had a lot of great feuds, but it would be hard to say the defining feud.

I'd never call myself a feminist, and that the world doesn't need male feminists.