I slept badly that night, my vivid dreams populated by ghosts. As much as it revived ailing spirits in day light, the fizzy energy of NY seemed to feed on human frailty at night.

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

Wiggy & I were drug buddies. There is no tighter compact for friendship. There is no greater potential for deceit.

Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.

The power of fiction is a great thing. But, after all, reality is just a little more important.

I always assumed that at some point I would have to quit making jokes, get a real job and do something meaningful and productive that would actually benefit society. Fortunately this never happened.

Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lantern comics, Tomar Re was the envoy to Krypton. That was fascinating to me.

The more keenly we are awake to the perils of life, the higher and grander is the possibility of being truly brave.

Not only did I feel hurt that she [Sarah Palin] sort of misdiagnosed all of these veterans, but I think she sort of was wrong in the way she talked about the issue.

The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.

Have you ever seen a monkey examining a watch?