A cold, calculating nightmare. Sharp as a finely honed blade. 'The Lucid Dreaming' cuts, separating the flesh before you even know you've been injured. It makes you bleed as a reader.

You can see darn near anything just by walking along the beachfront from Venice to Malibu.

Archie asked me if I knew Dante's definition of hell..."Proximity without intimacy, " he said.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.

Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan I heard when I was 13. It was one of those things where it was like, "Hey, the world is much bigger than you imagined as a little kid."

weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.

May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these our possessions.

Water. Oil pales beside it, and the value of the land itself is measured by it.

When you're an only child, you get very used to pleasing the adults around you.

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.