I ain't heard anyone play like I do in my band and I am very happy about that.
I would do 'American Splendor' and 'About Schmidt' again in a heartbeat.
It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world.
I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work.
I'm usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl.
There's nothing I love more than a good cry.
Storytelling is what lights my fire.
The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.
I do different work, teaching and running around visiting universities and bookstores, and that prevents me from writing. But it's nice to be wanted as a writer.
I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in chains. Women caged in cells. But we're the terrorists. It just doesn't make sense.
. . . some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.