You have to smile, if you expect anybody to smile back.

As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources.

Can we really be whoever we want to be, now that we’ve collected all that we are?

I love being a struggling artist; it makes me feel very alive.

I usually write in my underwear, with a space heater running full blast, and three dogs sleeping at me feet.

My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out.

I know I've lost my mind. But I'm not concerned, because it's the first thing I've lost in a long time that actually feels good.

I discovered John Fante when I was 17 years old - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy.

I really believe in challenging myself, pushing myself to new places.

You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when its gone, you have to look forward. You have to get in the van and keep driving on.

The jocks that used to stuff me into a locker when I was a punk rocker are my best buddies now.

Our Lord shouts and screams

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

Her eyes always had a frantic, lost look. He could never cure her eyes of that.

Jesus is Jesus. So, I'm not sure I'd get into the business of making somebody into Jesus. That's just me.

An Irishman's wife gave birth to twins. Her husband wanted to know who the other man was.

Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Thing are made slowly and in pain.

Life insurance can be numbingly complicated. Clients often turn off their brains and surrender their judgment to the very agent or planner who brought on their coma in the first place.

The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

I always knew that there were huge opportunities for me, and that I had a lot of potential to do a lot of different things, but I also knew it was about my execution and my application of skills.