No one actually lives as if there is no objective truth..

I wanted to pack a lot into the lyric, but not go beyond its bounds. Some have written that I wanted to expand what the lyric could do. I just want t….

What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe.’.

I always do things before I go on a case and when I leave a case. I even do that when I'm out on the road..

I don't like closed systems..

I don't pull, I just receive..

Nobody acts purely selfishly..

Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much..

There's a point when you go with what you've got. Or you don't go..

Calamus fortior gladio..

You won't be happy anywhere until you're happy somewhere..

L.A.'s always been good to me..

Now I see -- we are always most revolted by the things hidden within us..

Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good..

Success is less rare than the courage to attempt it..

I just create, that's what I do..

Always say less than necessary..

We see not our own backs..

You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented..

Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar..

Studying the behavior of large whales has been likened to astronomy. The observer glimpses his subjects, often at long range; he cannot do experiment….