I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.

Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart.

On a good day I write, all day.

By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place. I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family. But no one is offering any clear information.

There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.

If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.

Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.

Why should I shatter your wonderful fantasy with my boring reality? ~ Evie Snow

Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way.

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

I've always eaten egg whites because when I was little, I didn't like the color yellow, so my mom would trick me into eating eggs by taking out the yolk.

Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter.

My black-and-white work is more of a celebration and the color work became more of a critique of society.

Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.

It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense.

The very genetic determinism I posited in World's End as a way of shaking off my inherited demons is being proven in fact as we map out the human genome.

It is in the American interest to put an end to Nationhood. That is the goal in global government. America must get out of the United Nations or our sovereign Republic will not survive.