Dreams are nervy things—all it takes is for one stern word to be spoken in their direction and they shrivel up and die.

As we watched the soldiers and the Rambo disappear I remember feeling preternaturally calm. This is what deep, deep fear does to you. It turns you into a state of unfeeling.

A Prayer was like a tickle.Sooner or later God would have to look down to see what was tickling his bum.

I could have run after him. I could have asked politely for some clarification. But I didn’t I knew what I preferred, and that was—I didn’t want to know. Rather, I wanted to believe.

Stories have a job to do. They can't just lie around like lazybone dogs. They have to teach you something.

To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.

Some people have a handful of ideas, but not enough time to realize them.

I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor shades confined to the Euclidean prison that is sanity

With a healthy environment all our lives are enriched - without it our lives are diminished. The environment is and will always be number one - One Life, One World, Our Future.

The reality is that players can't play forever.

I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead.

The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness.

The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain

One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it.

As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.