All around us is a nothing that stretches on for infinity. We humans can barely comprehend that. If we comprehend it we are rarely pleased.

All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience.

There is nothing to me but you. I know it’s pathetic but, oh darling, it’s true.

I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you’re too busy living.

My creativity keeps me from starving. Humanity keeps my life mundane. Loving secures my love for life, but my imagination keeps me sane.

The greatest happiness is a quiet kind. It’s the tender understanding that we’re living in a very strange place full of strange creatures. And there’s quite a bit of wonder in that.

Violence can read like poetry. You just have to describe the act as if you’re in love with the way your characters bleed.

Honestly, I don’t know what I would recommend from this story. Perhaps it is this: if you have the choice to laugh or do nothing, you might as well laugh.

Where do they go, these dreams of mine? Do they live? Do they die? Do they fall? Do they fly?

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed.

The adversary system is a kind of warfare in mufti.

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

The hand of opposition is never exposed.

Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.

Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.

Megaphone in which the wind passes singing.

At first I was iridescent, then I became transparent, finally I was absent

You have to have fear to take risks - and I want to at least try.