Sometimes things work just because you think they work. It's as good a definition of faith as any.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.

Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment.

I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hear me.

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

Even when the lightening flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.

In America, you have this kind of individualism and in the West, essentially, you have this individualism - this idea of my own personal fulfillment.

I'm that grumpy old guy yelling at all those pesky little Grizzly Bear fans to get offa my lawn.

I used to do tech support for MSN in Canada.

I like what looks good on me and, as a result, I don't find myself drawn to one specific designer all the time.

I'm not really capable of memorizing stuff without moving around, that's how I do it.

The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents.

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.

Lies and promises are necessary but not sufficient.

I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

God's children improve all advantages to advance their grand end; they labour to grow better by blessings and crosses, and to make sanctified use of all things.