I have often believed the pen to be a needle, and ink to be a thread. Each story is an intricately woven tapestry and with each word I invariably sew a piece of myself into the page.

We are more than the person who wakes each day. We are the dreams of the previous night and the nightmares of the week before.

The death of a lesser man is the death of all those who believe themselves to be greater.

When the time comes for you to leave this earth, if it doesn’t become a lesser place with your absence, then you have wasted your life.

Knowledge is too final. Not knowing lets you dream a little.

I hasten to sleep so that I might dreamand colour my mind with a myriad of things.

In a corner of my soul there hides a tiny frightened child, who is frightened by a corner where there lingers something wild.

I saw you before. All your flaws, your imperfections. Your body’s going to a lot of trouble to hide something, something inside of you. It must be very precious.

I wanted to be a King who would found a New World, not in some misty country far across the seas, but right here, right now, at home.

In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again.

I feel more comfortable in comedy.

Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other.

Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.

Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.