I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

There is no one way to be a magician any more than there is only one way to be human.

What is writing but an expression of my own life?

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn'd ill luck every way.

You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.

You can't build a cathedral in a day. A look at the club's history tells you these things take time.

The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.

I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great.

I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?