My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.

The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free.

Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.

We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.

I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.