There's a weight in the room now, a remembrance of childhood. It sinks like a stone, or a heart, or my weight on a good day.

See, that's the thing about L.A.- When you've mastered the art of feeling lonely in a room full of people, that's when you know.

In Los Angeles, everything is 100 percent organic, except the people.

And, to be honest, if weed is a gateway drug, then I really did hop the fence, but sometimes I can't help but miss the sticky-sweet warmth of a good old fashioned hot box.

The idyllic mayhem of two cultures colliding just doesn't seem as funny anymore.

A bag of bones can slip through small cracks in a crowd effortlessly.

In the movies, God is an actor just like everyone else.

If I told you that I imagine love to be a two-way mirror, which side of the mirror would you imagine me standing on?

Beauty is biased, brainless. It says little to nothing about anybody as far as ethics are concerned, so why not monetize it? Give it some value, pin it with a price point. Otherwise, it’s worthless.

I haven’t felt the full weightof the world on my shoulders, and I haven’t experienceda fraction of the painand embarrassment I’ve put out into this great bigwhite world.

I think of drug dealers like I think of my father— never really there when you want them to be.

would you like to dance in the rain?

It is in the doing that makes the being worthwhile.

But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Katie Lane is a wonderful new voice in Western romance fiction.

I think I couldn't do what I do [live without money] without studying economics, because you need to understand the system first - how it currently works - in order to change it.

Crackpot is an excellent job because the expectations are so low. No one ever tells crackpots that they should be doing more.

It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.