Play like dreams serves the function of self realization.

There is no such thing as a baby, there is a baby and someone.

It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.

The fact that grief takes so long to resolve is not a sign of inadequacy, but betokens depth of soul.

Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you.

Feeling real is more than existing; it is finding a way to exist as oneself... and to have a self into which to retreat for relaxation.

Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind.

The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.

The capacity to still feel wonder is essential to the creative process.

It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative.

It's a poor thing to be sane!

When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea.

They are kissing—finally, extravagantly, like it's the first thirty seconds of a kissing competition and they can't imagine they'll ever get tired.

I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more.

I love getting on the subway because you get on the car, and you see the entire human race represented in any given subway car.

I would draw my own comic book characters listening to metal. The drawing and music kind of went hand in hand.

I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other.

I don't mind doing occasional guest appearances on shows, but I have other things I'd like to do in my life now.

An excellent indie horror book with a wholly original premise.

Well I've said it before and I'll say it again — America's best days are yet to come. Our proudest moments are yet to be. Our most glorious achievements are just ahead.

The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe.