Go and copulate with yon purple lizard.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

Friendship is not by force but by choice.You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody.

I do not take constructive criticism from people who have never constructed anything.

I was born on the night of Samhain, when the barrier between the worlds is whisper-thin and when magic, old magic, sings its heady and sweet song to anyone who cares to hear it.

...Opinion without a rational process.

We seem to have trouble with [critical thinking]. And our political system doesn't help.

I swear I have at least one good song idea a day. But if I don't get pen to paper in ten seconds, it's gone forever.

I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.

Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with.

Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.