With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.

But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.

We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.

Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.

Dedicate time to yourself and do things that help you grow

Great pain is repetitive. Grief is repetitive.

What strikes me as funny about Elvis is that all the impersonators choose to do the Vegas Elvis; not the young, cool guy, always the bloated fool.

Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.

You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.

The United States is unique among the rich countries, developed countries, in not having some kind of a national health-care system.

I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep painting. That's how I became an artist.

If one of us is chained, none of us are free...

A scotch buzz is the best buzz in the world.