Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

Every day that we wake up is a good day. Every breath that we take is filled with hope for a better day. Every word that we speak is a chance to change what is bad into something good.

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him

The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.

Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.

Poor is what people become, not what they are born to be.

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

Shoes are a mirror of what you want, what you are or what you're missing

Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.

And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.

We have so many ideas about things we have never tried.

Few take up the burden of their own victory; most give up their dreams when these become impossible.

Despite what you hear and say there will always be that one voice that will always be true to you.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.