Magick may be no more than the willful invocation of awe.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.

Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relatively cheap.

Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.

Normal is a bitter pill that we rail against.

Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.

Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.

A book may only be judged for what it is, not what you'd like it to be.

Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time.

Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone.

All too infrequently do I encounter a new voice as delightful, compelling, and intelligent as that of Molly Tanzer.

Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems

Running is a simple activity. Just lace up your shoes and go, one step at a time, like each breath.

I know how to separate my own laundry.

Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.

Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply, The good unask'd, in mercy grant; The ill, though ask'd, deny.

It isn’t a matter of getting the body you want, it’s a matter of doing the most you can with the body you have.

I've learned that a family can have little glitches without being labeled dysfunctional.

My films have to do with justice and many, many other concerns. That's the sad part of coming from my generation, and having been boxed in by those words like "identity."

People who watch Transporter are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.

If Trump really can build up American infrastructure, that will help reinflate the world economy, and that would be a good thing.