I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.

I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.

People are too complicated to have simple labels.

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

Around them there was nothing but silence, as if all the world were holding its breath.

It might have been a new way for her heart to beat.

Tell them stories.

I find myself enjoying being alone a lot of the time, people come and people go and you have to find a way to be ok with both.

Satanism represents kindness to those who deserve it instead of love wasted on ingrates!

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

It's very early in the market. I don't want to pretend I know exactly how this rolls out. But there's been an enormous amount of interest.

Marrying any man is risky. Marrying a famous man is kissing catastrophe.

What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!

Physically walking where Jesus walked is less important than walking as He walked.

The thing is I'm very interested in bad taste, as anyone who's ever seen me perform or had dinner with me would know.

We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.