They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.

I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter.

I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down.

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.

Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought.

So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets -- dainty bricks of dream wrapped in the silk stockings of oblivion.

Life, love, boys—it was all about balance.~Anna Percy

Love is a powerful magic.

Time and tide and the ravages of sin take their toll on the most noble achievements of man.

If there is one thing I have learned, from loving Jessamine and even from the evil tasks you have made me do, it is that all forms of life are worthy of compassion.

Wonder Showzen was one of the first shows that realized each sketch, each segment is essentially one joke, and, once you know what the joke is, it's time to move on.

The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.

Guard yourself against accusations, even if they are false; for the multitude are ignorant of the truth and look only to reputation.

Home for me is wherever my wife and kid are.

I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay, a big stack of bills that gets bigger each day.

Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human being.