You can't always go to the well and have things be funny.

Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

When we are in the dark, true friends are like a ray of light from heaven.

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final s

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings.

The kings of terrors, the last enemy, will never be able to breach the pearly gates and disturb the bliss of heaven! No more deathbed vigils or funerals. The hearse will have made its last journey.

Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,"Easy" doesn't enter into grown-up life.

You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.

I never wear a watch, because I always know it's now - and now is when you should do it.

This army stays here until the last wounded man is removed. Before I leave them to the enemy, I will lose many more men.

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.