If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

Without craziness, there is no courage.

There’s a thin line between saving someone and helping them destroy themselves

Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played the organ.

Eventually, I succeeded in everything.

I did [Henrik] Ibsen and [Anton] Chekhov for years. Obviously I didn't get the kind of recognition I have now. Somebody once told me, "You ride the horse the direction it's going."

This was released I think in February and so it is a great deal of fuss being made, it hasn't in fact been given public release, it was released in February.

Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams

I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary. It did not need to exist.

The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.