The psychological effects of the sun are strange: it had not yet appeared over the horizon and we already felt comforted, just imagining the heat it would bring.

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...

Some give the impression they go on living only because it's a habit they cannot shake

Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?

I'm at my most productive before I even have my first cup of coffee. I only get slower and stupider as the day progresses.

Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.

There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.

A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy

I love ghost stories, I love to read them, and I love the idea of being haunted.

I think a lot of people have an idealistic view - if you grow up in the country, there can't possibly be anything wrong with you.

Christ before me, Christ behind me,Christ in me.

Is there a spiritual element to creativity? Hell, yes. Our mightiest ally (our indispensable ally) is belief in something we cannot see, hear, touch, taste, or feel.