I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.

So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.

Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment.

I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hear me.

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

Sometimes things work just because you think they work. It's as good a definition of faith as any.

Even when the lightening flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.

There are some kinds of wounds you can get, internal injuries. You don't know what's wrong with you, but you're bleeding to death slowly inside.

Life is beauty simply breathing.

The faster you go the more chance there is of stubbing your toe but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.

In Australia...they celebrate Easter the same...by telling our children a giant bunny rabbit...left chocolate eggs in the night

We must not only give what we have, we must give what we are.

I found that you're more powerful when talking from your soul.

I have a hidden wild side, and the older I get the more it comes out.

The most faithful disciples of Christ have been builders of peace, to the point of forgiving their enemies, sometimes even to the point of giving their lives for them.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.