Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.

I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary.

Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

You've got to be able to pay your bills, otherwise you're not going to sleep at night. But beyond that, the world inside my head has always been a far richer place than the world outside it. I suppose that a lot of my art and writing are meant to bring the two together.

On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it might be more interesting to actually terrify them by going completely mad and declaring myself to be a magician.

Love your rage, not your cage.