Since I sometimes won the race between my fancy and nature’s reality, the deception was bearable. Unbearable pain began when chance entered the fray and deprived me of the smile meant for me.

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.

I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece

You have to be an artist and a madman...

I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists.

... she had painted her lips and was holding in her hollowed hands a beautiful, banal, Eden-red apple.

For some reason, I kept seeing it—it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina—a radiant child of twelve, sitting on a threshold, "pinging" pebbles at an empty can.

Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.

If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.

...Don't insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery.

I can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite.

I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.

When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.

Whether we remain the ash or become the phoenix is up to us.

There's so many good things I have to look forward to in life and new opportunities that arise every day because of my association with Michael Jackson. I mean, he is the gift that keeps on giving.

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.