Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn

Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Je est un autre. (I is someone else).

America's indispensable working class existed as property beyond the realm of politics, leaving white Americans free to trumpet their love of freedom and democratic values.

I like to listen to music that fits with what I'm writing. For each book, I've assembled a playlist, so readers can get a sense of what I was listening to while I was writing.

How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away?

I ain't got time to bleed.

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

You're a heartbreaker, dream maker, love taker, don't you mess around with me.

I have always wanted to see what the vibe was like and I was right It's on the Vermillion Bayou.

Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.

There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold.