The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

Sometimes a "mistake" can end up being the best decision you ever make.

For poets the wages of sin are poverty.

I’m bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden.

You're a no good heartbreaker, you're a liar, and you're a cheat. I don't know why I let you do these things to me.

It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch.

A single James creation is worth the whole output of a 7th Avenue year's work.

(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance.

I make music for people to feel happy with my music and the people that actually want to support me, that's all I care about. I care about the people that want the music. I make the music for them.

I didn't really care much about anything, so I guess I felt fine.

Do certain sets of circumstances lie ahead of us wherein we change the world radically by the choices we make?