If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!

The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.

You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.

You can only maintain an immensely gothic attitude for so long before either killing yourself or beginning to feel like a poser.

Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.

I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.

Young writers shouldn't be afraid of striving to emulate their favorites. It's a good way to learn, as long as you move on from it and don't publish too many of the results.

Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you.

Ive tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.

Despite your pains and your problems you can still be kind to others as they are not responsible for your misery.

Create time for yourself... There are 24 hours in a day... Outline the number to spend on your dreams every day!

Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world.

For a long time I listened to other people to decide whether I was still Christian or not, and I would sort of vet myself by the traditional formulae.

Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company's announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter.

CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

If someone with whom one is having an affair keeps on mentioning some woman whom he knew in the past, however long ago it is since they separated, one is always irritated.