You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!

The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.

You can only maintain an immensely gothic attitude for so long before either killing yourself or beginning to feel like a poser.

Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.

I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.

Young writers shouldn't be afraid of striving to emulate their favorites. It's a good way to learn, as long as you move on from it and don't publish too many of the results.

Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you.

Ive tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred.

I'm going to take a series of actions on day one to protect American workers.

In reality, on the grand scale, in my opinion... we are actually all responsible for each other.

If you don't sleep you get run down. Sloths never get a flu, cos its good innit thats when your body's replemishing.

I was born out of classical music.

Jesus on the Cross feels the whole weight of the evil, and with the force of God's love he conquers it, he defeats it with his resurrection.

People will not lend you a hand until you first touch their hearts.

More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.