I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.

Death by evaporation. May the saltwater wind that gets shot out of a barreling wave blow me away like an old puffy dandelion into the sky.

I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me.

The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

In the middle of the last century there was a reason to go to war. This time around the war was a really bad idea and I think the only people that benefited from it were Halliburton and people that made money from it, but that's not an excuse to have a war. Killing American kids so Halliburton can make money is not a righteous reason to go to war.

My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till dusk. The vice of 'more' is an ongoing theme.

Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.