To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.

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

Keep going, because there is nothing worse in this world than to stop. Simply keep flying ❤️

Bach is how buildings got taller. It's how we got to the moon.

There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

I like New Orleans music, I like Memphis music and I like the way that the sound like those places. I like how there are stars and there are people in those cities that are revered in the community.

A lot of people are using the Church, but not a lot of people are loving the Church.

God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us.

Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.

Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.

Rocky Marciano had such guts and heart. He was something special.

It's something about the inevitability. How nothing can keep them apart--not her selfishness, or his evil, or even death, in the end...their love is their only redeeming quality.