For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.

Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self-conscious about.

This kiss was better than any climb or bungee jump or zip line. Better than any other kiss. Damn him.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!

standing in line is a form of oppression

It is the parents duty to intervene when they see wrong choices being made.

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him.

Richard Prince's most famous photograph was made by me.