I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.

Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.

In a reality made of energy, thoughts may literally be things. What if it was intended that we create our own realities after death?

God is wild; I am tame....Night falls and an age ends....We call and are answered through the thick foliage, by voices too strange to be our own.

No doubt, I wont be believed, and thats all right, because, in a sense, it leaves me free in ways that belief would not.

In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed with the self-mocking irony of great intelligence.

I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them.

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.

who will love you? who will fight? and who will fall far behind?

It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.

Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.

Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything.

In terms of the Patriot Act, and all the other things he has pledged he would do, such as transparency in government,[Barack] Obama has reneged on his promises.

Good memories are our second chance at happiness.

To a reporter after Ray was pounded by Edmonton's Georges Laraque: What are you, the fight doctor now or something? You've never been in a fight in your life, so what are you talking about?

Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.