To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.

Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.

Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.

The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.

Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.

They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

Being a successful and wealthy man doesn't mean that you have to forget about the place where you were brought up and the people who struggleds to make you a better person

Sometimes your talent can steer you away from your passion.

An inconsistent political philosophy is that which feeds our battle yet starves our victory.

Patriotism is not short frenzied outbursts of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedicaton of a lifetime.

I accept the fact that angels are great heavenly beings, and I think some people give me the feeling that I'm with an angel.

If love could be purchased, everybody would have paid a thousand dollars a pound for it. You know it doesn't work that way.

I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.

No man can afford to express, through words or acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he must pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money

The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.