Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.

People easily become familiar with what you teach them practically than what you tell them verbally. Action fixes images in their minds and they can carry those images for a long period.

The great paradox of life is that to fully live, we must let a piece of ourselves die.

A Christian funeral should be a coronation ceremony, a statement to the world about eternal life.

What you give today you get tomorrow.

Writing is the act of discovery.

People, instead of competing, they can actually support each other, in music.

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

That's what I like about the movie business: you're always in contact with wonderful and interesting people.

I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters.

I get my ideas for books from my own kids and sometimes from other children. Often when I am telling stories I will say: I am going to make up a new story.