All I needed for the mind was to be led to new stations. All I needed for the heart was to visit a place of greater storms.

He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin.

I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works.

He recognizes voices within silence. (of Max Sebald)

In my way of thinking, anything is possible. Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all.

-What is nothing? I impetuously asked.-It is what you can see of your eyes without a mirror, was the answer.

It ain't so easy writing about nothin

Do not throw me out. Please.

If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.

Cats of good breed hunt better fat than lean.

We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.

I love the very exposed, humorous, imperfect, never-trying to-pretend-to-be-perfect journey that I have been on in my life.

The market is the best garden.

My favorite part of Comic-Con? The groupies. Man, they have loose morals, really. Men, women, I'm just saying that it gets weird on Sunday night. No, that's sadly never happened.

Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.

In off the moors, down through the mist beams, god-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.

The world I describe is about how people live now. It's not about zany people with unlimited, inexplicable funds in an apartment somewhere.