People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.

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

So the incompetents in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania’s state capital, knew or should have known that, even by their own lax rules, Gosnell should not have been carrying out abortions—but they didn’t care.

Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.

You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.

When you build characters from the outside in, they become, oftentimes they become like 'Saturday Night Live' characters or they become like caricatures of the character.

If anybody needs me, I'm in my room being embalmed.

And every true artist is the salvation of every other. But only artists produce for each other the world that is fit to live in.

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

It's a new normal and I really do think that global weirding is the best way to describe what we're seeing.

Astonishment is the proper response to reality.

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.