Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.

The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

Life is a disease.

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

All but one of Zoe Pendergraft's friends were dead.

Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.

Maybe it shouldn’t have come as such a surprise, but like a tooth extraction, there was a moment of intense pain and then a numbing sense of loss. I was officially unmarried.

Everyone wanted to see [him] fall so they could devour his remains. As is usually the case, the army of sycophants had turned into a horde of hungry hyenas

The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.

I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

If we can take the time to mute the noise we've build around ourselves the rhythm of the heartbeats and the purpose may be clear.

Ideas brush past fleeting and insubstantial as moths. But I let them go, I don't want them. What I want is a voice.

All effective actions require the passport of morality.

And I will make it felony to drink small beer.