Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself.

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.

Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?

It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).

He wasn't supposed to die, ' he cried out, somewhat desperately, petulantly, like a spoiled child. But I could hear other thoughts racing between us.Neither are you.Neither am I.

He wrote me a note to say we would create art together and we would make it, with or without the rest of the world.

I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it.

It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.

I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.

Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor.

It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.

There's a lot more to life than how fat or thin you are.

All that is required is to know this. For you are the creator of your reality, and life can show up no other way for you than that way in which you think it will.

And whoso is found a faithful, a just, and a wise steward shall enter into the joy of his Lord, and shall inherit eternal life.

There are a lot of people who do crazy things without necessarily being crazy, for example crossing the Atlantic solo. Some crazy things which requires you not to be crazy to achieve them.

Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.