The fat man looked amused. "What on earth for?" he said. "I never have any contact with writers. If I do, they just keep pestering me about getting paid.

These were the facts. Facts were important. They separated fiction from reality, the tawdry world of Mike Longshott from the concrete spaces of Joe's world.

One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness.

God desires that through us the ones who do not know him will be convinced

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

Odd's fish, m'dear! The man can't even tie his own cravat!

I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue

Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness-both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter.

don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter, because it does. and don't tell me i look fine because that's a lie.

The ashes of your existence will fertilize the soil for the universe to follow.

I'm short and to the point.