...things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon.

We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.

Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.

The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.

I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.

He is not bad, I don't think. Perhaps he is simply too lazy to be good.

I do not know what it was about that boy but just looking at him, even I wanted to clout him on the head. It was a head that invited violence.

Our blood is the same, we just use it differently.

Work will drive you crazy if you let it.

I sighed. ‘It doesn’t matter what we do. Money comes and goes.’ I shook my head. ‘It doesn’t matter and you know it doesn’t.

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

Mistakes are stepping stones for great achievement.

The answer to finding better work/life balance is to find the right blend between all our life activities—regardless of where and when they occur.

The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.

Once you have a genuine sense of concern for others, there’s no room for cheating, bullying or exploitation.

The three most destructive words that every man receives when he's a boy is when he's told to 'be a man'.

I have all these revelations as I'm writing. Each song is like a chapter of my diary.

If you don't know, it's not always necessary to admit it.

Half a page--and the morning is already ancient.

America champions the underdog. We champion the underdog until he's not the underdog anymore, and he annoys us.