Short chaps evolved naturally, but I didn't title and number them till much later. I like short chaps, like short books too, as a rule.

A bilingual marriage, by the way, is a great way to stay together for longer than you normally would because you can't understand each other very well.

Amazon is evil, like anything big, but we can't help if it flows the very center of literature.

What if someone picks on me?" I askedThen I'll pick on them".What if someone picks my nose?" I asked.The I'll pick your nose, too" Rowdy said.

I want to figure out how people can go on with their lives when mine has changed so much. I want to relearn how to breathe without carrying this big, empty cave inside me.

I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.

Each life creates endless ripples.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town.

I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form.

My wife and I really enjoy a glass of red wine. We're too old to drink cheap wine, and we don't.

You have to think outside the box. The world is changing every day, the music industry is so different but I think the more creative you are the better.

And yet, something inside you is so horrible or you're such a coward or whatever the reason that you decide that you have to end it. Robin Williams, at 63, did that today.

He’s ours now. Not made by evil, but birthed by human cruelty. (Mortent Leader)