Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon. If I can finish, then I'm quite happy to go.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.