I work with pen and paper. That's my favorite way to write. I love the way the ink sinks into the wood, soaks into the wood pulp. There's something about that process that's so organic.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

He brightened. "Are you Irish then?" "My last name is McNally. I'm as Irish as Paddy's pig.

The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.

Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind.

A man marries one woman to escape from many others, and then chases many others to forget he's married to one.

You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.

It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

The Auteurs have become Luke Haines. I ate their bodies, spat out the pips, and sucked up their souls.

We monsters are necessary to nature also.

And I walked, I walked through the light air; I moved with the morning.