Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.

If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.

I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.

Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.

Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange little life to lead. Leading it the best I can - that's how I buy the ticket to where I want to be.

Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore.

This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose

A broken thing can't fix itself.

Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.

Those who choose to be servants know the most about being free.

I may just be on the outskirts of being okay.

When you're already going through a rough patch of life

Nothing prepares you for hiring a person whose only contribution to the workforce will be killing people!

Discipline, not the Muse, results in productivity. If you write only when she beckons, your writing is not yours at all.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.

I am sincere, ma petite, even when I lie.

The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.