I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hear me.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.

Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment.

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

Sometimes things work just because you think they work. It's as good a definition of faith as any.

Even when the lightening flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.

You can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely.

Light can only be understood with the wisdom of darkness.

I once drew a picture of Jack Nicholson in The Shining. But I put it away after a Feng Shui expert told me about the bad vibes

I've always wanted to be a star. I've always wanted money and wanted to travel. So I knew there was a price to pay for that.

It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.

Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.

I'm always impressed with the way the writers find new and creative ways of killing people. But my favourite has to be the hat pin through the ear.

Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.

Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds.