Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery.

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction

It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.

The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves.

Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.

Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

Knowledge is never enough. Even action, if it's just following a prescribed way, will never fully express your potential.

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

I thought that was fantastic. We were working on that the other night, actually.

We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.

I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus.

No being should be killed. No being should be unloved.

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.

I could hear you, talking to the daffodils and tulips, whispering to the fairies that lived inside their petals. Each separate flower had a different family inside it.

Comics can do any kind of story. It's words and pictures, the only things it can't do are sing and dance.