Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.

Night is a world lit by itself.

The shadows: some hide, others reveal.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone.

I know what I have given you, I do not know what you have received.

Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.

A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.

We’re not crazy. We’re just not in the dark anymore. And my goodness, we can see you so clearly now.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

I write because I can’t sleep.

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

I grew up interested in the underside of Hollywood, which I think David Lynch does really well.

They can buy talent. You can't buy it for yourself, but you can buy other people's talent to serve your purposes. And once an artist does that, he becomes like a plaything of the rich.

The most important thing in my life is Christ.