The irruption of the supernatural into our world is a much more enticing notion to explore than the same thing happening in some past time, or in a wholly imaginary world.

There is a love of wood, as of other things that do not answer to our touch.

You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it.

I wanted to have very strong female characters. I just thought it was always the way the world should be.

It sounds creepy, but I always liked the idea of disappearing then becoming something new. That of course was before I disappeared.

[Poetry] was a form of incantation, a means of welding the world inside his head to the one that surrounded him, words the fiery chain that bound it all together.

If the retreat house was a trap, it was a very nice one.

You can be anything, you want to be in this life.

Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.

Take a look at yourself, the mirror's revealing. If yeen got it, yeen got it the theory is brilliant.

Time taught me how to see every second as heaven, even though they're perfectly disguised as hell.

Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

My dad's not a very intimidating father figure.

When Nixon died, on my radio show I started doing sketches with three basic conceits: One, there's a place called Heaven. Two, Nixon got in. And three, he's still taping.

Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.

The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience.

Success comes from repeated efforts day in and day out. You learn from your mistakes, make adjustments and continue pressing forward until you achieve the results you desire.