Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.

Live a courageous life.

My soul feels reborn each time I see you

We all envy other people's luck.

The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.

We must hunt the terrorists down and kill them. There is no other way to respond to those so committed to the destruction of life.

They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.

My job is not to scream and yell, my job is to cheer you and be positive. If you miss four shots, I'm still going to pass to you.

Sometimes the essay is where we end up when everything that we know must change.

Basically, you can't make a pop culture reference now without someone saying it's Tarantino-esque or post-Tarantino and I'm like where's that all come from? It's ridiculous. But it's not his fault.

Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.