Secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.

Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?

It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).

He wasn't supposed to die, ' he cried out, somewhat desperately, petulantly, like a spoiled child. But I could hear other thoughts racing between us.Neither are you.Neither am I.

He wrote me a note to say we would create art together and we would make it, with or without the rest of the world.

I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it.

It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was.

The universe is soo huge, it would be a pity if we were alone

Laughing is so therapeutic but what is even more therapeutic is having someone laugh out loud with you.

Vision is a mental picture of what could be, fueled by a passion that it should be.

The woman is the reflection of her man

I could walk and swim at 10 months old.

It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom.

In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.

Well, the way I see it, there are three possibilities: One, you stole it; two, you stole it; or three, you stole it!

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Beginning 'Beloved' with numerals rather than spelled out numbers, it was my intention to give the house an identity separate from the street or even the city.