People think they're gonna make a living off poetry. Ten years ago, maybe a couple of people did. Right now, no one, I don't think.

The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He's probably one of the few people that have survived Los Angeles as a human being.

You see, I needed to go to Hell.

I think Elvis Presley will never be solved

The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer.

Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance.

I don't have a college degree.

For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.

Stupid dire warnings of imminent doom.They always put me in a bad mood.

The darkest clouds precipitate the most rain.

Be to the world a sign that while we as Christians do not have all the answers, we do know and care about the questions.

Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.

The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.

Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.

Although some fools find rudeness sexy, it is never the path to seduction.

Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter.