Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.

When you have three teenagers, it gives a whole new meaning to "homeland security."

Go-kart Mozart was checking out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside.

It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.

Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair. The night's busted open. These two lanes will take us anywhere.