Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

Books, Cats, Life is Good.

There are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you.

It's well we cannot hear the screams we make in other people's dreams.

My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.

If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.

The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.

Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path.

When people are finding meaning in things -- beware.

My favorite journey is looking out the window.

God knows, there's enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things.

I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once for my true love.

Go to bed, " he ordered. "Go to bed... and stay there.

[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.

O wild dark flower of woman Deep rose of my desire An Eastern wizard made you Of earth and stars and fire.

I was never interested in money. I always looked down on it. But now that I have less money, I see that without money, you cannot do much. Everything in the end is about money.

If I want to do something in the TV industry, I should be allowed to explore that, but not in a way where it has to cancel out or ruin my visual art career.

Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.

At the dinner table, if you can't think of anything to say, sit quietly. Don't throw rolls, or chew on your napkin.

Every audience is different, even within the same venue. You have to just make every audience your audience; you can't pre-judge an audience based on the size of the room or the type of room.

Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.