Two weeks. Everything you love, own, and cherish, can be gone, liquidated, and lost forever in two weeks. Give or take a day.

Free will always results in collateral damage.

There was a day when writers actually read, " he grumbles. "They could quote Keats and Socrates. Now anyone with a keyboard and a fifth-grade education can call themselves a writer.

I don’t think I’m crazy, but then again, define crazy.

Dying may just be the best thing that ever happened to me.

And a funeral, I found out, is like a wedding in reverse, with less time to plan.

Do you understand what I'm saying?Pardon? I just wanna hear you talking.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

The most significant thing is public participation. That assures the Afghan public that our promises are not empty.

On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

No big shocker that following Jesus is costly. The best things in life always are.

Son, a man’d brand Is his own special mark That says this is mine, leave it alone. You hire out to a man, Ride for his brand And protect it like it was your own.

Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries.

It's natural. I freestyle, meaning that I just rap. I might put words on paper, but I just put a beat on my rap, and go off the top of my head. It's something I've been able to do for a long time.

Orange? Like Effie's hair?" I say. "A bit more muted," he says. "More like sunset.

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.