Writing, Skydiving, Running, Reading, Living, Loving, the Chozen Family, Day-In-And-Day-Out, the Evolution, that Everlong feeling in the gut, and many many other things.

House, West Wing (wait, it’s no longer on? WTF?), 24, Quantum Leap, The Unit, Frontline. Stuff.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, High Fidely, Say Anything…, Reality Bites, Great Expectations, Love Actually, Glory, Casablanca, and others. But really I have only 2 criteria for what makes a great movie: 1) Cowboys. 2) Gay Cowboys. I mean, what else do you need?

I worked in magazines for over 8 years and am enjoying my time away from them. I still think Esquire is brilliant, though.

From the Teeth of Angels, Franny and Zooey, Catcher in the Rye, Outside the Dog Museum, Paula, The Tooth Fairy, The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Klay. I read constantly, but these would be some of my favorites.

“You, me, coffee, cigarettes, and conversation. That’s all we’ll ever need.” - Troy Dyer

“In memory everything seems to happen to music.” - Tennessee Williams

“I am the least difficult of men/All I want is boundless love” - Frank O’Hara

“People used to make records/As in a record of an event/The event of people/Playing music in a room” - Ani DiFranco

“The true New Yorker secretly believes that anyone living anywhere else has to be, in some sense, kidding.” -John Updike

“You cannot lead people, unless you love people, and you cannot save people unless you serve people. Therefore your leadership is contained by the depth of your love and your ability to save is measured by your willingness to serve.” - Dr. Cornel West

“The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed” - Charlotte Bronte

“Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars.”
-‘Paula’ by Isabel Allende

“In the time of your life, live. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. Ignore the obvious, for it is unworthy of the clear eye and the kindly heart. Be the inferior of no one, nor of anyone be the superior. Remember that everyone is a variation of yourself. No one’s guilt is not yours, nor is any one’s innocence a thing apart. Live—so that in this wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.” - ‘The Time of Your Life’ - William Saroyan

“One of my fascinations about my own life is that every now and then I see a thing that unravels as if an artist had made it. It has a beautiful design and shape and rhythm. I don’t go as far as some of my friends, who think that their whole life has been one great design. When I look back on my life I don’t see it as a design to an end. What I do see is that in my life there have been a fair number of moments which appear almost as if an artist had made them. Wordsworth, who affected me a great deal, had this theory about what he calls ‘spots of time’ that seem almost divinely shaped.” - Norman MacLean

“The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.” - Alexis de Tocqueville

“I know that I was born/And I know that I’ll die/The in between is mine” - Pearl Jam

“It’s what you do to the people you say you love, that’s what matters. It’s the only thing that counts.” - The Last Kiss