Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.

A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.

My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights.

A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.

I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.

She was another gift, surely, to us all. She was a happiness that made me cry.

Absolutely. Justice served with a side of pineapple. That's what I'm here for.

The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed and can't get there is the meanest feeling in the world.

I think I dont really have any expectations; I dont look at the season as a whole - I look at it race by race.

The unfolding of our friendship with the Father will be a never-ending revelation strretching on into eternity

No one ever understood disaster until it came.

Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.

If you are not willing to take the shame on yourself, you then let it remain on Jesus Christ. You must bear the reproach of your sinful state of indifference, or the cause of our Master must bear it.

I think I'm hysterical. I watch myself on tape and just roar - isn't that weird?

I figured out early on what I wanted to do.