There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.

The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover.

Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.

Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.

You think this is living? This is eating, nothing else.

Forget it, Jonathan, and go back to sleep. And before you go to sleep, pray that no well-meaning god ever makes you immortal.

I would never have started this trip if I had known how tough it was, but I couldn't and wouldn't quit.

I spy, with my little eye, something that starts with ... G." "Sausages.

There is no god, not a god who would create the things I saw

In my heart of hearts, I know that whatever I do is going to have integrity, and I'm going to work really hard, and I know that fans are going to take to it.

He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life.

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

She liked that word: we. It sounded warm and open, like a hug.

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.

Something is happening. I sense a change in the wind…a mutual understanding of each other. I haven’t felt this way in forever.