You're only good if you can do bad and decide not to.

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.

You must learn focus and concentration for you to enjoy solitude.

Before I can become an expert on anything, I must first become an expert on me.

There are so many different kinds of ghosts.

...if life never changed, there would be no room for good things that are still to happen.

Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.

They say my public persona don't have enough appeal, I take a lesson from Kanye and give 'em something real.

There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.

Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians?

In spiritual direction there is absolutely no domination or control.