They say that these are not the best of times, but they're the only times I've ever known.

The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, man, what are you doing here?

There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.

She's got a smile that heals me.

A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.

There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.

When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I'm a message guy, per se. I write about people. I like to write about human beings, not crap political rhetoric. I've tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn't trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.