Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

Truth is most beautiful undraped.

Some people think the devil is one being. I think the devil is when many beings come together to do terrible things. You are looking at the Terrible.

Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas.

I like poems that are little games.

Laziness has many disguises. Soon "winter doldrums" will become "spring fever."

Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.

Don't fight your problem. Know that there is a solution.

I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing.

I screamed until my voice dried up in my throat. We all did. All of us in Ward Six, all of us forgotten, left to rot.

I guess everybody's different, but I know that everybody's natural instinct is to remember the bad stuff more than the good stuff.

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.