Sometimes I think that my best writing comes from exposing my fears and vulnerabilities and hoping that nobody notices it's about me.

Death has an energy. It is thick as sludge, heavy as iron, and pulls you down into yourself like an imploding building.

Life is full of chances -- and those times when we each trust our own guts and have a terrific outcome reaffirms our ability to make good decisions.

My motto is: When in doubt, just keep lying. Even if you're terrible at it.

Dear Aspiring Author; Write with heart. Put that open, honest, bare soul on paper.

What kind of a man thinks it's appropriate to give his soon-to-be bride a lethal weapon for a wedding present?

Am I the only one who secretly hopes that the Curiosity rover will be swallowed up by a giant alien worm living just below Mars's surface?

And I was fairly certain that my strong-enough-for-King-Kong-but-made-for-a-woman deodorant had utterly failed. --Doom with a View

You’ve missed a lot of things. But mostly I think you’ve missed several opportunities to leave. Let me assist you to the door so that you won’t miss this next one.

Gilly Gilleshpee

Butterflies don't know their wings' Colors, but others see their Splendor.

I have a constant hungry bum. It's like my own venus fly trap

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord in his wisdom didn't work that way. So I just stole one and asked him to forgive me.

It's fun when you start a movie, because it's kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping... you get to make your wish list and you start thinking about what each character needs.

I believe in the family. I believe in marriage, and I think it's such a great institution. I think men should be able to marry each other, and women should be able to marry each other.

Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.

I don't remember the hotel rooms or the airports but I always remember the events.

Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.

I played at Georgia, I coached at Alabama. I know how to beat both of them.

Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?