It was so useful to lie with the truth.

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?

The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.

She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood.

Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.

When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

No one is ever ordinary.

Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.

We have a mental health system that is dominated by political and hidden forces that keep us stagnated and unable to see real, lasting change.

King Crimson is never easy; it's challenging. That's why I like it.

The artist always has been and still is a being somewhat apart from the rest of humanity.

Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.

I'm looking forward to the time when we all look like Polynesians.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

Let the ancient serve the present, let the foreign serve the national; by developing that which has been accomplished one creates something that is new.

Well you only need the light when it's burning low, only miss the sun when it starts to snow.

The photograph doesn't claim to be a participant, or to know, or to be a club member of whatever it's documenting - photography is more demanding when it doesn't pretend to know.

The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.