I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small shocking acts of tenderness.

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.

We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.

Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.

Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.

At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are.

I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways.

The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.

At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound.

The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.

If you want to fight a cult, you've got to form a cult.

Good Things Never Stay ..This what People Say..So, When I met you I knew That Oneday, You Will just Go Away !STILL...I'll pray & prayThat we walk The Same WAY ( :

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

The Virtue and unpretentiousness of the wise man, which I am talking about, goes unnoticed because of its transparent ordinariness.

How many young men fear that there is a monster inside them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves. People are supposed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

We've been talking about Lorde like crazy! She's amazing!

The most important history is the history we make today.

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?

The whole world lives for pleasure. The only difference is theirs is fleeting, while ours is forever in Jesus.