At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are.

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.

We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.

Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.

Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.

I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways.

The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.

At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound.

The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.

If you want to fight a cult, you've got to form a cult.

To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact, how you learn to diagnose your own work.

I myself am an absolute abyss.

The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.

Dance is so important in the world. It needs no language. Our bodies speak a language of its own.

Everybody free-solos. When you walk to the store, you're free-soloing. It's just a matter of the difficulty of the route.

Love is not a feeling to be felt, it's an action to be learned.

Death Of A Salesman is a great acting job.

I love people and I love to sing, and that's what keeps me going.

The current tax code is a daily mugging.

Did you see a doctor? (Syn) Yeah. It’ll heal. (Cruel) Did your mom say anything? (Syn) Clean the blood out of the carpet before it sets. What could she say? Better me than her. (Cruel)

There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction.