if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

I vibrate with cheer and delight in my cells. I let beauty heal me!

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.

Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.

Gazzy: "Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R.

Every person in therapy has a love disorder.

Alzheimer's usually comes later than AIDS, but I decline to call that progress.

Perhaps, thought Talon, there was a path in between. A way to shed their ignorance without losing their souls.

I want to encourage people to not think in terms of gifts, but think in terms of, wow. You work hard to succeed at that, because that's exactly what I do.

If somebody asks for my opinion, I tell them my opinion, whether it's what they want to hear or not.