In every creepy movie ever made, the barn is the prime nesting ground for the things you don't know you're looking for and always regret finding.

Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.

Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.

So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.

You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will.

You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

It's almost dawn. You can feel it coming. The world holds its breath, because there's really no guarantee that the sun will rise. That there was a yesterday doesn't mean there will be a tomorrow.

It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

There's no book that absolutely everyone loves.

I might have been afraid that if I really loved someone and needed her, one day she might suddenly disappear without a word, and I'd be left all alone.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference by philosophy and by religion.

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.

As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.

They're powerful, those songs. At times they've been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them.