When one has little faith, one must survive from day to day signs-

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-

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

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

There's no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infinite as worlds.

Humility is one of the best expressions of self respect.

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.

Bruce Parker's The Power of the Sea is an engaging and essential history of science. It’s also a terrific account of survival on our wild blue planet.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?

You cannot fail. You can only get results.

If a man has any brains at all, let him hold on to his calling, and, in the grand sweep of things, his turn will come at last.