Even when the lightening flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.

Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment.

I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hear me.

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

Sometimes things work just because you think they work. It's as good a definition of faith as any.

Jaunting off together towards the bedroom doorway, they cast off their clothes, like caps at graduation.

I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.

Drama is more focused and it reveals itself to you, whereas comedy is just right there, when you first read it.

All things that pass Are wisdom's looking-glass.

... if you have nothing, you are free to choose among dreams and fantasies.

History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.

It's one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and you can be wrong.

For a moment, they all stood staring at each other. Then Holly shattered the stillness by throwing herself at Angela. "God, Angie!" she exclaimed, arms locked around her neck. "What Happened?

Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.