If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If you feel blocked, write through it until you feel your creative juices flowing again. Write. Writing is what makes a writer, nothing more and nothing less.

Hell's Bells ringing, my secret music.

We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature?

A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.

To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.