When I'm off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days a week. Every afternoon, whatever I have at hand, beets, carrots, ginger, whatever. I juice, literally, every single day. And on the road, I try to find fresh juice wherever I can.

Most of the writers I like just intimidate and humble me but in that there's a good deal of inspiration to be had as well.

I listen to blues music a lot and that's a good person feeling bad and celebrating that pain by releasing it in that kind of joyous fashion.

The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking.

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.

If it were a choice between me getting killed or one of my friend's kids, I would happily take the shot.

The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.