The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don't tell you what to see.

The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams.

...food was at least three million per cent more delicious when you ate it immediately after thinking you were going to die.

There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd.

The secret to a happy marriage is a sense of humor, because marriage throws you curveballs. It is not easy.

What has interested me all along is not the pronouncement of meaning but pointing toward the way meaning is formed.

Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.

They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic.

Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem.

That I happened to fall into a career that no other girls wanted isn't surprising to me. I wanted something that didn't exist, so I had to create it.