I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively. ... For words are merely tools and if you use the right ones you can actually put even your life in order, if you don't lie to yourself and use the wrong words.

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want

That's where Time magazine lives ... way out there on the puzzled, masturbating edge, peering through the keyhole and selling what they see to the big wide world of chamber of commerce voyeurs who support the public prints.

I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.

The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.

Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception.