I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them.

Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.

I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.

In a reality made of energy, thoughts may literally be things. What if it was intended that we create our own realities after death?

God is wild; I am tame....Night falls and an age ends....We call and are answered through the thick foliage, by voices too strange to be our own.

No doubt, I wont be believed, and thats all right, because, in a sense, it leaves me free in ways that belief would not.

In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed with the self-mocking irony of great intelligence.

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.

Failure is the price paid for a lesson. Learn from it.

i hugged myself as a child & told Myself that everything was perfect in the petrichor The smell of pure innocence & earthy & earthly Innocence that stays in the clothes I only wear on good days…

What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?

Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little bit.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says 'Amen' and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him our ideas.

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.

I've always thought preaching to the converted is just kind of futile and silly.