I wanted to cry so bad, but my tears are inside. A blindfold keeps them there. I can’t see today. Patti, I don’t know anything.

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.

Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?

It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).

He wasn't supposed to die, ' he cried out, somewhat desperately, petulantly, like a spoiled child. But I could hear other thoughts racing between us.Neither are you.Neither am I.

He wrote me a note to say we would create art together and we would make it, with or without the rest of the world.

I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it.

It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was.

No matter what luxuries you have or don't have, life is always beautiful when you are around your loved ones!

I dislike arranged marriages. There are some mistakes for which one should not be able to blame one's poor parents.

True monsters are not those lurking under the bed, but the ones sleeping in it.

Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.

Only mind has sight and hearing; all things else are deaf and blind.

I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.

There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege to work with over the years.

The food industry, its trade associations, and research foundations, is well financed and highly organized to pressure the FDA.

The risk is worth it. Mike would have been the first to say that.

Limitations imply possibilities. A problem is a challenge.