I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

The day you are born is the day you start dying

Sometimes for the spectators a great magic effect is worth a life’s experience.

Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good.

I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.

We are not going into government with Sinn Fein.

Will not the Lord hear my prayers and listen to my cries as soon as he ever did to theirs [the ancient saints'] if I come to him in the manner they did?

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

Everything is here for a purpose, from horses to vine shoots. What's surprising about that? Even the sun will tell you, "I have a purpose," and the other goods as well.