To justify being listened to, I try to be as well informed as I can. Hence, the travel. Reading is good too. Reading gets you part way there, and I do read pretty voraciously for a guy who's trying to write so much.

When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise.

Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.

I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.

In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.