A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.

My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights.

I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.

Great art is an escape from the agony of why.

Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God created you to be.

A positive attitude will help you edge out cynicism and pessimism to restore hope and optimism.

No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

That's what I miss out of all this synthesized music - it starts to lose dynamics.

I would have made a lousy stripper. I'm just not very comfortable exposing myself.

The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.