If a cone had dropped on velvet needles, if a star had lain a silver track across the sky, if the dead had turned in their graves - I swear, I would have heard it, that's how silent it all was.

Before you hate something you should try to understand it.

Writing is an antisocial act.

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking they have to write good words.

Arnold was a dog's dog. Whenever he shuffled along walks and through alleyways, he always gave the impression of being on to something big.

Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are.

The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.

Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers.

An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.

Talking's just a nervous habit.

It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage...

Have you always been this skilled with women?" - Joseph to Iain

A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.

Those who never think of money need a great deal of it.

From that day on it was as if Ren freed me from gravity. I was floating in the sky. Higher. Higher. Higher.

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

Religion is the retarded stepchild of philosophy.

Crime is not the problem of the victim, the victim didn't create the crime.

Remember you belong to nature, not it to you.

A place where your life exists before you live it, and where it goes afterwards.