How do I explain a life that has lasted for billions of years? It is almost as if I must start with an apology for being alive when everyone I once knew is dead.

Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.

The hourglass runs low.

A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.

You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.

Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.

What you wish for, what you most hope for - that is your greatest illusion.

When you were in love, you knew no fear or hatred. When you were fearful, there was no possibility of love or hate. And when there was hate, there was only hate.

Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.

You search endlessly for permanent happiness in a world where nothing is permanent.

It doesn't matter. You are what you are. I am what I am. We are the same-when you take the time to remember me.

Every spell is a journey.

Finally! You're here!"Uh....Do I know you?"Well, no....But you're here, all the same...

I dreaded an invasion of ghosts or, less likely, an invasion of the police.

My best writing is often early in the morning and, sometimes, while working out.

I was heavily influenced by Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright.

Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not hear.

What do you call love, then?" Someone I can't live without.

Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

A fearful man is always hearing things.

I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine; I do not think in those terms.