Sometimes there's a sort of tear in the veil, and there are people who live in more than one dimension.

Scars are stories, history written on the body

For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity.

The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives on air, on water, on purity.

My days are as long as despair can make them.

I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.

Don’t portray yourself as who you want to be. Portray yourself as who you are.

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

There aren't many people in our history who have so completely surrendered themselves to a mission that they would give up their lives for it.

We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our children give us. It's they who love us helplessly, no matter what or who we are.

In simplicity there is truth.

Sometimes we don’t have a choice in where we come from, but we can definitely choose where we go from there.

When the passion isn't there, the drive isn't there and it just doesn't last for me.

I can’t remember how many times I advised students to stop writing the sunny hours and write from where it hurts: No one wants to read polite. It puts them to sleep.

What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.

There's nothing like meeting someone's family to get a true sense of them and a reflection of their ethics and personality. It just makes them a more rounded person.

May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.

I just want to be written about as a normal artist.

Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.

A very little little let us do And all is done.