The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.

How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.

Dreams can be of value even if you don’t have an opportunity to turn them into reality.

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.

I think my ex-girlfriend has weekly lessons with the devil on how to be more evil. I don't know what she charges him.

Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death.

I am a musician who stopped working with music. Now I work with visual music, or audio-visual music.

And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

It's possible to go faster than folk are ready for; that's the key to democracy.

Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.