And perhaps the greatest blessing was that we never knew how short the time was.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.

Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment.

I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hear me.

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

Sometimes things work just because you think they work. It's as good a definition of faith as any.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly

The spirits of children are remote and wise...

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." -

Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.

I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can't stop it.

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark, but $120 for an earthquake emergency kit just seems unreasonable.

What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.

I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.

Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.

You should prepare when you go to a public event to be public. That's when I will sign autographs. But not when you're going about your normal business.