The only thing your life teaches you is how to live your life. And that’s only if you’re very lucky. And you listen very hard.

Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.

Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.

It’s a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck.

Maybe I lacked coping skills. Maybe I was weak. I cared for people for no better reason than they seemed to care for me, acknowledge me. It didn’t seem so dangerous at the time.

Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless?

Kafka didn't save me. He just told me I was drowning.

I lost my father this past year, and the word feels right because I keep looking for him. As if he were misplaced. As if he could just turn up, like a sock or a set of keys.

...like a small stone deflected off a larger one, my brother had spun off toward the Almighty, though to my mind the events of that morning could just as well have cast him the other way.

I was raised to be ashamed of my ignorance, and to try to do something about it if at all possible.

I suspect that on some level, life is a matter of indefensible loyalties.

We're living tragedies, just passing time 'til our funerals.

When asked, 'What is more important: praying or reading the Bible?' I ask, 'What is more important: breathing in or breathing out?

There's nothing like a good, long sleep to allow unpleasantness to recede into the past.

I have found that reading is much better than a good sleep.

I'm on the Sensa diet. It's a little magic powder based on Dr. Hirsh's clinical trials and studies and it basically signals the brain that you're full through smellology.

I decided that instead of apologizing for having a lot to say, I wanted to create a format where people would come to hear me sing and speak.

Sometimes in life, there are no second chances

A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.

My body is a reflection of how grateful I am for my life and my health; there are a lot of people less fortunate than me.

Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.