You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.

Even when we lose an arm or a leg, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue.

The Schnauzer listens to jazz. I listen to jazz because he likes it, and I have even gone to jazz concerts with him, but truthfully I would rather listen to retarded children pounding on pan lids with wooden spoons.

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers.

My brother was born without taste or the desire to be professionally lit.

This is what you should know about losing someone you love. They do not travel alone. You go with them.

The past doesn't haunt us, we haunt the past.