Arianna, hold on! I’m coming!” I yell as I watch the life leave her eyes and she falls to the ground.“NO!” I scream as my eyes fly open.

If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.

Our instrumental part in the symphony of life is to allow love to create a space within our own awareness, through which the undreamed mystery may emerge as a knowable reality.

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.

If all the arts aspire to the condition of music all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

I feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing the rights of people I have known and loved to be rendered faithfully, or to be left in peace, and out of novels.

Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

The bottom line is that people are seeking answers and direction, not messages or sales pitches.

Metal is more popular than it ever has been, every expression of it.

I love the idea of the street vibe, having folks together, out in the street at midnight.

Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them.