So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment.

I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hear me.

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

Sometimes things work just because you think they work. It's as good a definition of faith as any.

Even when the lightening flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.

What we call human is nothing but a dance of trillions of well organized, interconnected, interesting, and magical molecules.

Our teens are embedded in a culture driven by competition and perfectionism, where success is defined by status, performance and their appearance.

The nail that sticks out is hammered down.

I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK.

I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.

The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me.

You can't live in the past, musically if you do, you are dead.

I actually have a weird tendency to say things to people that they were just about to say. I always freak my best friend out with that. So I might have a bit of psychic power.

I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor.

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.