Don’t worry, my friend. I won’t let you die.” I was seventeen and stupid and I believed him.

I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal?

Too many words for one book--truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father had great faith in her judgments.

He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn’t share them all at once.

It made me happy that poems are referred to in the present tense even when the poet is in the past tense.

One of the great benefits of being married is always having someone to tie one's tie.

A peaceful mind is a powerful mind...Set your mind at ease and take charge of yourself.

Heaven is a home without the machines or gods. Hell is a home without love.

I dare say there's many a woman makes as sad a mistake as I have done, and only finds it out too late.

We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.

I'd rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God.

Nothing of significance was ever achieved by an individual acting alone. Look below the surface and you will find that all seemingly solo acts are really team efforts.

When I work with my art department on putting imagery together for my blog posts I always think, 'Would I pin this?' That really helps.

I believe in fate, that films happen when they are supposed to.

When you play the 12-string guitar,you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.