Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.

I didn't want to do it, ' Kiala said. 'The universe just kind of conspired to force me to make a fool of myself. It does that quite a lot, actually.

The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.

Porsche....there is no substitute

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.

I tried the religion scam in Miami, so I know how hard that gig is. But, if you can get it to work, starting your own religion is a license to print money.

I walk fast. Keep moving. Always be a moving target. Marilyn Monroe taught me that.

As you climb, you grow deeper in the foundation, so it makes our foundation deeper.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.

A warrior does not beg for his life. ~Izuru Kira