For The Worst Things Of Our Lives,

One Of The Beautiful And Terrible Things About America Is You Can Go There And Still Be Whatever You Want, If You Bust Your Ass And You Have Some Luck.

I Always Wanted To Write A Book About La, A Big Ambitious Book. Nobody Had Ever Really Done It With La- Treating The City Seriously As A Major Economic And Cultural Power, As The Embodiment Of 21st Century America.

And As Ridiculous As It May Sound, Sometimes All Any Of Us Needs In Life Is For Someone To Hold Our Hand And Walk Next To Us.

More Than Anything, All I Have Ever Wanted Is To Be Close To Someone. More Than Anything, All I Have Ever Wanted Is To Feel As If I Wasn't Alone.

My Wife Says I'm Only Comfortable When There's A Fight. And It's True. The Thing That Motivates Me Is Struggle.