Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

It's a lot easier to write about people when you're not living with them!

We're all human beings with bodily needs living within a system. We don't need to prove that we're not a part of the fabric of the culture in order to want to change it.

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

Sometimes one has to know something many times over. Sometimes one forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets again.

After my friend's accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.

102. After my friend's accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.

Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.

It will not say, 'Isn't X beautiful?' Such demands are murderous to beauty.

Open up your heart enables expansion of the dimensions of the conscious states.

Our readers are curious, creative, and compassionate fairy punks who are citizens of the world.

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing.

There is no such thing, incidentally, as one kudo.

Every shuttle mission's been successful.

Beautifully drawn, solid, compelling characters against a background so real and scary I left the lights on all night. It was great!

If there are witnesses the government interviewed who suggest other people were involved or that Tim McVeigh was not involved, those are critical matters that would have to be investigated.

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction.

There are no beginnings, not even to stories. There are only places where you make an entrance into someone else's life and either stay or turn and go away.