“Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.”

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

We must bring our own light to the darkness.

To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.

Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that’s why we get along.

I wanted the whole world or nothing.

The tigers have found me and I do not care.

Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.

Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.

If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.

That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good.

Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that’s not what any of us should want from our judges.

Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.

It’s bad policy to speculate on what you’ll do if a plan fails when you’re trying to make a plan work.

A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.

Whenever my country has something bad happening I feel guilty for not being there. It’s weird.

A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.

I’ve only been in unrequited relationships where people haven’t loved me back. I guess I’m a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.