It sounds creepy, but I always liked the idea of disappearing then becoming something new. That of course was before I disappeared.

There is a love of wood, as of other things that do not answer to our touch.

You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it.

I wanted to have very strong female characters. I just thought it was always the way the world should be.

The irruption of the supernatural into our world is a much more enticing notion to explore than the same thing happening in some past time, or in a wholly imaginary world.

[Poetry] was a form of incantation, a means of welding the world inside his head to the one that surrounded him, words the fiery chain that bound it all together.

If the retreat house was a trap, it was a very nice one.

The point is, you have family and friends who love you. You have a world out there just waiting for you to conquer it. You have a life that will be anything you make it. That's the point.

My heart made it's choice, and it chose you.

silence can be words but words cannot be silence

You can’t help who you fall in love with.

Love is a forest fire ignited by a firefly

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.

The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.

Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.