You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.

Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.

My life is not just about the past.

No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.

It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. 'Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten,' Dad said, ' you'll still have your stars.

Don't be afraid of your dark places. ... If you can shine a light on them, you'll find treasure there.