You’ll see, ” Mother assured her. “The fish will be just as friendly and the waves just as fresh in the new world the door makers find for us.

Benny pushed a slow breath through his teeth. “Is it so terrible to believe in something?

The smile on his face said, pure and simple, those honey cakes came with a price. And his price was answers.

It felt like betrayal, finding joy even in little things when Willow was in danger.

Current "literature" [is] well-written books in which disgusting people do disgusting things to other disgusting people for no apparent reason and with no apparent resolution.

We move through this world on paths laid down long before we are born.

I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.

Don't do something you don't like. Look for a job that makes you excited to get up and go to work everyday.

Making reality real is art's responsibility.

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

Do you really miss anything that was worth watching at the MTV Awards?

What do you want to want to be, anyway?" "I don't know; I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic." "What you should say"--he told me--"what you should say is that you want to be a saint.

The happiest of people is the one under whose care people are happy because of him, and the most miserable of people is the one under whose care people are miserable because of him.