Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.

Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.

It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.

At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful.

Christ Jesus leads the way to holy heavens.

As an adult I had mastered the art of looking without seeing and listening without hearing and eating without tasting and maybe even existing without living.

Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.

If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays with you.

But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.

You could say, in a way, that I'm not actually a writer, though perhaps I might be called a recorder? ... I just happen to be one of those holding the pen, that's all.

Set your expectations and goals so high that people think they're impossible, that's when you know you set them too low.

I think the media has to continually remind itself, and I think we do but sometimes not well enough that we're not just an economic property.

There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.

We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased.